Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen
Redaktion: Hendry, Joy; Wong, Heung Wah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Top scholars in the field of Japan anthropology, examine, challenge, and attempt to move beyond the notion of an East-West divide in the study of Japan anthropology. This is a timely and important examination of the current state of the academic study of Japan anthropology.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134152919
• Artikelnr.: 42675877

Autorenporträt

Joy Hendry is Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University and a Senior Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford. She has worked for many years in Japan, but recently seeks to put Japanese material in a global context. Her publications include Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies and The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display. Heung Wah Wong is Associate Professor at The Department of Japanese Studies, The University of Hong Kong. His research interest lies in the study of Japanese companies. He is the author of Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers: Power and Control in a Hong Kong Megastore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Japan Anthropology: A Model for Good Practice in a Global
Arena? 2. Against "Hybridity" as an Analytical Tool 3. Fear and Loathing of
Americans Doing Japan Anthropology 4. The Relationship between
Anthropological Theory, Methods and the Study of Japanese Society 5. Japan,
Anthropology and the West 6. When Soto becomes Uchi: Some Thoughts on the
Anthropology of Japan 7. Anthropological Fieldwork Reconsidered: With
Japanese Folkloristics as a Mirror 8. The Discipline of Context: On
Ethnography among the Japanese 9. Tinkering with the Natural: Lessons from
Japan for an Anthropology of the Body 10. Japanese Ryokan and an Asian
Atmosphere: Always East of Somewhere 11. Joint Research Project as a
Tradition in Japanese Anthropology 12. "De-Orientalizing" Rice? The Role of
Chinese Intermediaries in Globalizing Japanese Ricecookers 13. Two Wests
Meet Japan: How a Three-Way Comparison of Japan with Canada and the United
States Shifts Culture Paradigms 14. The West in the Head: Identity Issues
of Latin Americans Living in Japan 15. East and West Unite in Culture 16.
Wandering Where: Between Worlds or in No-Man's-Land? 17. West/Japan
Dichotomy in the Context of Multiple Dichotomies 18. Neither "Us" nor
"Them": Koreans doing Japanese Anthropology 19. Re-Orient-ing the Occident:
How Japanese Travellers to Asia Reveal the Changing Relationship between
Eastern Membership and Perceived Western Hegemony 20. Contending with the
Strong: Okinawa's Adaptation to World History 21. When West met East and
made it West: Occidentalizing the Ainu 22. Japanese Collections in European
Museums 23. Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy: What Happens with
Religion? 24. Legacies of East-West Fusions in Social Ecology Theory in
Dismantling 'Views of the Japanese Nation' 25. Japanese Management and
Japanese Miracles: The Global Sweep of Japanese Economic and Religious
Organizations 26. Somewhere In between: Toward an Interactive Anthropology
in a World Anthropologies Project 27. If Anthropology is a Science, then
the East-West Dichotomy is Irrelevant: Moving Towards a Global Anthropology
28. Writing for Common Ground: Rethinking Audience and Purpose in Japan
Anthropology 29. Native Anthropology as a Cultural System: An Analysis of
the Notion of a Native Anthropology as a Situated Response to the
Anthropological Gaze 30. Japanese Anthropological Scholarship: An
Alternative Model? 31. What Enlightenment can Japan Anthropology Offer to
Anthropology?