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Hardcover. Condizione: New. viii, 705 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm Contents: Introduction -- Fieldwork. 1. From scrambled messages to an impromptu dip : serendipity in finding a field location ; 2. The paradox of friendship in the field : analysis of a long-term Anglo-Japanese relationship -- Marriage and some early theoretical contributions. 3. Is science maintaining tradition in Japan? ; 4. The modification of tradition in modern Japanese weddings and some implications for the social structure ; 5. Tomodachi kō : age-mate groups in northern Kyushu ; 6. Shoes : the early learning of an important distinction in Japanese society ; 7. "The fix" in Japanese society ; 8. Marriage and the family in modernising Japan ; 9. The continuing case of Japan -- Child rearing and education. 10. Becoming Japanese : a social anthropological view of child rearing ; 11. Kindergartens and the transition from home to school education ; 12. Peer pressure and kindergartens in Japan ; 13. Children's contests in Japan ; 14. St. Valentine and St. Nicholas travel abroad : success and internationalisation in Japanese education ; 15. Individualism and individuality : entry into a social world ; 16. Bags, objects and education in Japan ; 17. Material objects and mathematics in the life of the Japanese primary school child -- Politeness, housewives and the wrapping idea. 18. The use and abuse of politeness formulae ; some social implications ; 19. Respect, solidarity or contempt? : politeness and communication in modern Japan ; 20. Humidity, hygiene, or ritual care : some thoughts on wrapping as a social phenomenon ; 21. To wrap or not to wrap : politeness and penetration in ethnographic inquiry ; 22. The armour of honorific speech : some lateral thinking about keigo ; 23. Politeness and formality in Japanese social relations ; 24. Order, elegance and purity : the life of the professional housewife; 25. Honorifics as dialect : the expression and manipulation of boundaries in Japanese ; 26. The role of the professional housewife ; 27. Wrapping and Japanese presentation : is this waste or care? ; 28. The sacred power of wrapping -- Cultural display. 29. Gardens and the wrapping of space in Japan : some benefits of a Balinese insight ; 30. Nature tamed : gardens as a microcosm of Japan's view of the world ; 31. Who is representing whom? : gardens, theme-parks and the anthropologist in Japan ; 32. Pine, ponds and pebbles : gardens and visual culture ; 33. The whole world as heritage? : foreign country theme parks in Japan ; 34. Foreign country theme parks : a new theme or an old Japanese pattern? ; 35. The Japanese tattoo : play or purpose? ; 36. Old gods, new pilgrimages : a whistle-stop tour of Japanese international theme parks ; 37. Shakespeare on show in Japan : an anthropological analysis of cultural display ; 38. "The past, foreign countries and fantasy . they all make for a good outing" : staging the past in Japan and some other locations -- Some sundry contributions. 39. Nursing in Japan ; 40. Food as social nutrition? : the Japanese case ; 41. Drinking and gender in Japan ; 42. The ritual of the revolving towel ; 43. The chrysanthemum continues to flower : Ruth Benedict and some perils of popular anthropology ; 44. Building bridges, common ground, and the role of the anthropologist -- Summing up. 45. Japan and Pacific anthropology : some ideas for new research ; 46. Learning that emerges in times of trouble : A few cases from Japan ; 47. Forty years of research and teaching on Japan : a personal trajectory -- Joy Hendry's full bibliography -- Index.