Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-236) and index.
Anthropology in Japan : a model for good practice in a global arena? / Joy Hendry -- Against "hybridity" : culture as historical processes / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney -- West/Japan dichotomy in the context of multiple dichotomies / Akitoshi Shimizu -- Thoughts on 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 -- Postmodern bodies, material difference, and subjectivity / Margaret Lock -- Anthropological fieldwork reconsidered : with Japanese folkloristics as a mirror / Takami Kuwayama -- Joint research projects as a tradition in Japanese anthropology : a focus on the 'civilization studies' of the Taniguchi symposia / Hirochika Nakamaki -- The discipline of context : on ethnography among the Japanese / Mitchell Sedgwick -- Japanese inns (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 rice cookers / 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-Vázquez -- Two Wests meet Japan : how a three-way comparison of Japan with Canada and the United States shifts culture paradigms / Millie Creighton -- Eastern and Western anthropologists unite in culture : a personal note / Heung Wah Wong -- Neither 'us' nor 'them' : Koreans doing anthropology in Japan / Okpyo Moon -- Re-orient-ing the occident : how young Japanese travellers are using the East-West dichotomy to dismantle regional nationalisms / Bruce White -- Fear and loathing of Americans doing Japan anthropology / William W. 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 and their role within the field of Japanese studies / Josef Kreiner -- Dismantling the East-West dichotomy : but what happens with religion? / Peter Ackermann -- Legacies of East-West fusions in social ecology theory in dismantling 'views of the Japanese nation' / Pamela J. Asquith -- Somewhere in between : towards 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.
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Ethnology-- Fieldwork-- Japan.
Ethnology-- Research-- Japan.
Diplomatic relations.
Ethnology-- Fieldwork.
Ethnology-- Research.
Manners and customs.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.