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Lives in Motion - Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan (Paperback)
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Lives in Motion - Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan (Paperback)
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List price R621
Loot Price R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
You Save R99 (16%)
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From the deathbed to the commuter railway station, from the
marriage market to the fish market, from the baseball field to the
grave, this volume explores the diversity of contemporary Japanese
society by studying how people "compose" their families, their
communities, and their own identities. Challenging fixed boundaries
characteristic of institutional analysis, these essays comprise an
anthropology of real people who age, who play, and whose lives
speak to ours even over chasms of cultural differences and
misunderstandings. The contributors are historians, sociologists,
and anthropologists of Japan who engage these ideas in their
research and who have been inspired over the years by the spirit of
David Plath's anthropology of self. Part I includes essays by Susan
Long, Kamiko Takeji, and Scott Clark which explore how the meaning
of self is created through long-term engagement with convoys, those
with whom one coauthors biographies. The second set of chapters
investigates the process of creating circles of interaction,
identity, and meaning beyond that inner circle. Keiko Ikeda
considers the cocreation of individual and collective meanings
among consociates of locality. The chapters by Paul Noguchi and by
David McConnell and Jackson Bailey describe negotiations of
identity among consociates within the workplace, while Theodore
Bestor and William Kelly focus on constructions of regional and
national identity. In Part III, chapters by Christie Kiefer, John
Grossberg, Morioka Kiyomi, and Robert J. Smith bring us full circle
to reconsideration of composing the self, but within the widest
possible social universe that includes the aging, the dying, and
the spirits of the dead.
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