Inside a Japanese Sharehouse

Caitlin Meagher

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This book explores social change in Japan at the most intimate site of social interaction - the home - by providing a detailed ethnography of everyday... Lees meer

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture

Mitchell Sedgwick

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Globalisation - the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images - increasingly takes place through the work o... Lees meer

Home and Family in Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• In the Japanese language the word ' ie ' denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - ... Lees meer

The Care of the Elderly in Japan

Yongmei Wu

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and th... Lees meer

Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed,... Lees meer

Making Japanese Heritage

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are as... Lees meer

Religion in Japanese Daily Life

David C Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Are Japanese people religious - and, if so, in what ways? David Lewis addresses this question from the perspective of ordinary Japanese people in the ... Lees meer

Home and Family in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• In the Japanese language the word ' ie ' denotes both the materiality of homes and family relations within. The traditional family and family house - ... Lees meer

Happiness and the Good Life in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Contemporary Japan is in a state of transition, caused by the forces of globalization that are derailing its ailing economy, stalemating the political... Lees meer

Primary School in Japan

Peter Cave

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, inc... Lees meer

Language, Education and Citizenship in Japan

Genaro Castro-Vázquez

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Based on extensive original research, this book explores the early educational experiences of foreign children in Japan. It considers foreign children... Lees meer

Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of ident... Lees meer

Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture

Mitchell Sedgwick

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Globalisation - the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images - increasingly takes place through the work o... Lees meer

Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one... Lees meer

Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan

Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Presenting a study of politics at grassroots level among young Japanese, this book examines the alliance between the religious movement Soka Gakkai (t... Lees meer

The First European Description of Japan, 1585

Luis Frois Sj

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• In 1585, at the height of Jesuit missionary activity in Japan, which was begun by Francis Xavier in 1549, Luis Frois, a long-time missionary in Japan,... Lees meer

Japanese Tree Burial

Sébastien Penmellen Boret

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop | nr. 23
• Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head priest of a Zen Buddhist temp... Lees meer

Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan

Helena Grinshpun

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This book explores the impact in Japan of the rise of global coffee chains and the associated coffee culture. Based on extensive original research, th... Lees meer

Disability in Japan

Carolyn S Stevens

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• Disability and chronic illness represents a special kind of cultural diversity, the "other" to "normal" able-bodiedness. Most studies of disability co... Lees meer

Primary School in Japan

Peter Cave

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, inc... Lees meer

Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of ident... Lees meer

Japan's Changing Generations

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conformin... Lees meer

The Culture of Copying in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresse... Lees meer

Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan

Nicolas Tajan

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan Anthropology Workshop
• This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement... Lees meer