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Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making cross-cultural comparisons. The chapters in this collection cover topics as diverse as funerals and mourning, sweeping, women's roles in ritual, the division of ceremonial foods into bitter and sweet, the history of a shrine, the playing of games, the exchange of towels and the relationship between ceremony and the workplace. The book provides an overview of the meaning of tradition, and looks at the way in which new ceremonies have sprung up in changing circumstances, while old ones have been preserved, or have developed new meanings.
Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed and continue to develop according to their own internal dynamics. With chapters written by an international group of experts in the field, Asian Anthropology will be a useful teaching tool and a valuable resource for scholars working in Asian anthropology.
"Asian Anthropology" raises important questions regarding the
nature of anthropology, and particularly the production and
consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of
assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of
anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with
the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian
countries have developed and continue to develop according to their
own internal dynamics. They then go to analyse what the
consequences of this complex amalgamation of factors have been for
anthropological knowledge and practice in these countries.
For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a
handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western'
colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the
theoretical claims of anthropology and its fieldwork
achievements.
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