Dismantling the East-West dichotomy essays in honour of Jan van Bremen / edited by Joy Hendry and Heung Wah Wong.

Other author Bremen, Jan van, 1946-2005.
Other author Hendry, Joy.
Other author Wong, Heung Wah, 1963-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxviii, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Ethnology--Research. --Japan.
Ethnology--Fieldwork. --Japan.
Japan--Social life and customs.
Japan--Foreign relations.

SeriesJapan anthropology workshop series
Contents Anthropology in Japan : a model for good practice in a global arena? / Joy Hendry -- Against "hybridity" as an analytical tool / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- West/Japan dichotomy in the context of multiple dichotomies / Akitoshi Shimizu -- The relationship between anthropological theory, methods, and the study of Japanese society / Roger Goodman -- When Soto becomes Uchi : some thoughts on the anthropology of Japan / D.P Martinez -- Tinkering with the natural : lessons from Japan for an anthropology of the body / Margaret Lock -- Anthropological fieldwork reconsidered : with Japanese folkloristics as a mirror / Takami Kuwayama -- Joint research projects as a tradition in Japanese anthropology / Hirochika Nakamaki -- The discipline of context : on ethnography among the Japanese / Mitchell Sedgwick -- Japanese ryokan and an Asian atmosphere : always east of somewhere / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis -- Japanese management and Japanese miracles : the global sweep of Japanese economic and religious organisations / Wendy Smith -- "De-orientalising" rice? : the role of Chinese intermediaries in globalising Japanese ricecookers / Yoshiko Nakano -- Wandering where : between worlds or in no-man's-land? / Peter Knecht -- The West in the head : identity issues of Latin Americans living in Japan / Genaro Castro-Vazquez -- Two wests meet Japan : how a three-way comparison of Japan with Canada and the United States shifts culture paradigms / Millie Creighton -- East and West unite in culture / Heung Wah Wong -- Neither "us" nor "them" : Koreans doing anthropology in Japan / Okpyo Moon -- Re-orient-ing the occident : how Japanese travellers to Asia reveal the changing relationship between eastern membership and perceived western hegemony / Bruce White -- Fear and loathing of Americans doing Japan anthropology / Bill Kelly -- When the East West dichotomy is destructive : Japanese housewives in the UK / Ruth Martin -- When West met East and made it West : occidentalising the Ainu / Kirsten Refsing -- Japanese collections in European museums / Josef Kreiner -- Dismantling the East-West dichotomy : what happens with religion? / Peter Ackermann -- Legacies of East-West fusions in social ecology theory in "dismantling "views of the Japanese nation" / Pamela Asquith -- Somewhere in between : toward an interactive anthropology in a world anthropologies project / Shinji Yamashita -- If anthropology is a science, then the East-West dichotomy is irrelevant : moving towards a global anthropology / Gordon Mathews -- Writing for common ground : rethinking audience and purpose in Japan anthropology / Lynne Nakano -- Towards an open anthropology / Ron Carle -- Japanese anthropological scholarship : an alternative model? / Eyal Ben-Ari -- What enlightenment can Japan anthropology offer to anthropology? / Heung Wah Wong.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2006006418
ISBN0415397383 (hardback : alk. paper)

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