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Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village - The Making and Becoming of Person and Place (Hardcover, New)
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Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village - The Making and Becoming of Person and Place (Hardcover, New)
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Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kazaki-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 a country that
describes itself as nonreligious; and the relationship between men
and women in a society where gender divisions are still very much
in place. Kuzaki is, for the anthropologist, both a microcosm of
modernity and an attempt to bring the past into the present. But it
must also be understood as a place all of its own. In the 1980s it
was one of the few villages where female divers (ama) still
collected abalone and other shellfish and where some of its
inhabitants continued to make a living as fishermen. Kuzaki was
also a kambe, or sacred guild, of Ise Shrine, the most important
Shinto shrine in modern Japan - home to Amaterasu, the sun goddess.
Kuzaki's rituals affirmed a national identity in an era when
attitudes to modernity and Japaneseness were being challenged by
globalization. Martinez enhances her fascinating ethnographic
description of a single diving village with a critique of the way
in which the anthropology of Japan has developed. The result is a
sophisticated investigation by a senior scholar of Japanese studies
that, while firmly grounded in empirical data, calls on
anthropological theory to construct another means of understanding
Japan - both as a society in which the collective is important and
as a place where individual ambitions and desires can be-expressed.
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