First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and
colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen
through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for
four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part
social and moral commentary, this very personal and sensitive book
depicts not only the intricate relationships among the valley
people, but also those between them and the anthropologist who has
come from the outside world to study them. The book has a dual
purpose: to portray the intimate, day-to-day lives of people living
in a remote part of Japan, and to describe how one anthropologist
tries - and eventually fails - to "become at one" with his
informants. Throughout, the book questions the premises of
participant observation, which has become a mainstay of modern
anthropology.
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