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11%OFFKatherine Rupp - Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies - 9780804747042 - V9780804747042
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Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies

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Description for Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies Paperback. Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at the personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.

Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan.

Gift-Giving in Japan is based on eighteen months' fieldwork in the Tokyo metropolitan area, as well as short-term research in other parts of Japan. The core of the study is the experience of family representatives of different ages, classes, genders, occupations, neighborhoods, and religions. The author also interviewed experts, including the author of gift-giving etiquette books, Buddhist ... Read more

Recent anthropological interest in drawing a strong contrast between commodities and gifts both reflects and reinforces the conception of the gift as part of the giver and the related distinction between the realm of the gift and the realm of the marketplace. The author argues that Japanese practices of giving and receiving challenge assumptions related to this idea of the gift.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804747042
SKU
V9780804747042
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Katherine Rupp
Katherine Rupp is a Research Affiliate at Yale University's Department of Anthropology.

Reviews for Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies
"Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies is superbly written and an inspiring work which I recommend for students, researchers, and anyone interested in understanding modern Japan and its people."
Journal of Japanese Studies "[The author] displays not only acute observation of the content of gift-giving but also sensitivity to ambiguities of motives on the part of both giver and ... Read more

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