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Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, 106)
Susan Orpett Long
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Description for Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, 106)
Paperback. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781885445063
SKU
V9781885445063
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About Susan Orpett Long
Susan Orpett Long is professor of anthropology at John Carroll University.
Reviews for Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan (Cornell East Asia Series, 106)
A very good book that makes an important contribution to the study of self in Japan. The book succeeds well in bringing forth the individual diversity that characterizes Japanese lives as they grow and change through experience and time.
Journal of Asian Studies
A fitting tribute to [David] Plath for his major contribution to the field of Japanese ... Read more
Journal of Asian Studies
A fitting tribute to [David] Plath for his major contribution to the field of Japanese ... Read more