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Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian
eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first
ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with
the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their
employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together
sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body,
migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of
societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass
media representations, the Indonesian workers' experiences serve as
a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping
the image of a national "other" in Japan.
This book untangles the relationship between expert categorisations
of risk and the on-the-ground experiences of untrained 'ordinary'
people who may be routinely subjected to significant danger in a
variety of extraordinary contexts. It considers political, ethical
and moral dimensions of risk and calls for more targeted
ethnographic research, designed to reveal how grass-roots risk
dispositions and practice intersect with official discourses,
individual agency and community resilience.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian
eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first
ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with
the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their
employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together
sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body,
migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of
societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass
media representations, the Indonesian workers' experiences serve as
a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping
the image of a national "other" in Japan.
Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses
on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks,
temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral,
economic exchanges are key to religious debate in Buddhist
societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in countries
ranging from India to Japan, including all three major Buddhist
traditions, the book addresses the flows of goods and services
between clergy and laity, the management of resources, the
treatment of money, and the role of the state in temple economies.
Along with documenting ritual and economic practices, these
accounts deal with the moral challenges that Buddhist adherents are
facing today, thereby bringing lived experience to the study of an
often-romanticized religion.
Vibrantly engaging contemporary Buddhist lives, this book focuses
on the material and financial relations of contemporary monks,
temples, and laypeople. It shows that rather than being peripheral,
economic exchanges are key to religious debate in Buddhist
societies. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in countries
ranging from India to Japan, including all three major Buddhist
traditions, the book addresses the flows of goods and services
between clergy and laity, the management of resources, the
treatment of money, and the role of the state in temple economies.
Along with documenting ritual and economic practices, these
accounts deal with the moral challenges that Buddhist adherents are
facing today, thereby bringing lived experience to the study of an
often-romanticized religion.
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