Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village : : The Making and Becoming of Person and Place / / D. P. Martinez.
Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kuzaki-cho) at a particular moment in time (the 1980s), D. P. Martinez addresses a variety of issues currently at the fore in the anthropology of Japan: the construction of identity, both for a place and its people; the importance of ritual in...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. On the Anthropologist and Her Subject
- Chapter 2. Japan and the Ama
- Chapter 3. Kuzaki: Making Place and Identity
- Chapter 4. Organizing the Village: Dōkyūsei, the Kumi-ai, and the Nifune Festival
- Chapter 5. Keeping the Ie Afloat: Part 1. Diving and Women's Rituals
- Chapter 6. Keeping the Ie Afloat: Part 2. Fishing, Tourism, and New Year's Rituals
- Chapter 7. Elders and Ancestors: Making and Becoming
- Chapter 8. Ritual, Gender, and Identity
- Notes
- References
- Index