Anthropological lifetime in Japan : : the writings of joy hendry.

• Author: Hendry, Joy.
• Place / Publishing House: [S.l.] : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Writings of 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (713 pages)

Joy Hendry's collection demonstrates the value of an anthropological approach to understanding a particular society by taking the reader through her own discovery of the field, explaining her practice of it in Oxford and Japan, and then offering a selection of the results and findings she obtai...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location
• The Paradox of Friendship in the Field: Analysis of a Long-Term Anglo-Japanese Relationship
• Is Science Maintaining Tradition in Japan?
• The Modification of Tradition in Modern Japanese Weddings and Some Implications for the Social Structure
• Tomodachi kō: Age-Mate Groups in Northern Kyushu
• Shoes: The Early Learning of an Important Distinction in Japanese Society
• “The Fix” in Japanese Society
• Marriage and the Family in Modernising Japan
• The Continuing Case of Japan
• Becoming Japanese: A Social Anthropological View of Child-Rearing
• Kindergartens and the Transition from Home to School Education
• Peer Pressure and Kindergartens in Japan
• Children’s Contests in Japan
• St Valentine and St Nicholas Travel Abroad: Success and Internationalisation in Japanese Education
• Individualism and Individuality: Entry into a Social World
• Bags, Objects and Education in Japan
• Material Objects and Mathematics in the Life of the Japanese Primary School Child
• The Use and Abuse of Politeness Formulae: Some Social Implications
• Respect, Solidarity or Contempt? Politeness and Communication in Modern Japan
• Humidity, Hygiene, or Ritual Care: Some Thoughts on Wrapping as a Social Phenomenon
• To Wrap or not to Wrap: Politeness and Penetration in Ethnographic Inquiry
• The Armour of Honorific Speech: Some Lateral Thinking about Keigo
• Politeness and Formality in Japanese Social Relations
• Order, Elegance and Purity: The Life of the Professional Housewife
• Honorifics as Dialect: The Expression and Manipulation of Boundaries in Japanese
• The Role of the Professional Housewife
• Wrapping and Japanese Presentation: Is this Waste or Care?
• The Sacred Power of Wrapping
• Gardens and the Wrapping of Space in Japan: Some Benefits of a Balinese Insight
• Nature Tamed: Gardens as a Microcosm of Japan’s View of the World
• Who is Representing Whom? Gardens, Theme Parks and the Anthropologist in Japan
• Pine, Ponds and Pebbles: Gardens and Visual Culture
• The Whole World as Heritage? Foreign Country Theme Parks in Japan
• Foreign Country Theme Parks: A New Theme or an Old Japanese Pattern?
• The Japanese Tattoo: Play or Purpose?
• Old Gods, New Pilgrimages: A Whistle-stop Tour of Japanese International Theme Parks
• Shakespeare on Show in Japan: An Anthropological Analysis of Cultural Display
• “The Past, Foreign Countries and Fantasy . . . They All Make for a Good Outing:” Staging the Past in Japan and Some Other Locations
• Nursing in Japan
• Food as Social Nutrition? The Japanese Case
• Drinking and Gender in Japan
• The Ritual of the Revolving Towel
• The Chrysanthemum Continues to Flower: Ruth Benedict and Some Perils of Popular Anthropology
• Building Bridges, Common Ground, and the Role of the Anthropologist
• Japan and Pacific Anthropology: Some Ideas for New Research
• Learning that Emerges in Times of Trouble: A Few Cases from Japan
• Forty Years of Research and Teaching on Japan: A Personal Trajectory
• Joy Hendry’s Full Bibliography
• Index.