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  • Anthropology

    A Beginner's Guide

    Series series Beginner's Guides
    In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about “race” based ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Understanding Japanese Society

    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    In this welcome new sixth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese Society, Joy Hendry and Emma E. Cook take the reader into the heart of Japanese life.Providing a clear and accessible introduction to Japanese ways of thinking, which does not require any previous knowledge of the country, this book explores Japanese society through the worlds of home, work, play, health, religion ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Orient Strikes Back

    A Global View of Cultural Display

    de Joy Hendry ...
    Series series Materializing Culture
    At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese ‘villages' and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds' Fairs . At the beginning of the 21st Century, Japanese tourists have reversed the gaze and now may visit a range of European ‘countries', as well as several other cultural worlds, without ever leaving the shores of Japan. This book suggests that ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Japan at Play

    de Joy Hendry ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    This book explores the myth, so abused by the mass media, that the Japanese are a grey, anonymous mass of efficient, obedient workers. The articles shed light on a Japan outside officialdom, a lively Japan of tumultuous and independent thought, inefficient and aesthetic, pleasure-loving, aggressive and wasteful, creative and anti-authoritarian. The book's truly international contributors examine ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy

    Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen

    Edición de Joy Hendry, Heung Wah Wong ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    It has been customary in the appraisal of the different approaches to the study of Japan anthropology to invoke an East-West dichotomy positing hegemonic ‘Western’ systems of thought against a more authentic ‘Eastern’ alternative.Top scholars in the field of Japan anthropology examine, challenge and attempt to move beyond the notion of an East-West divide in the study of Japan anthropology. They ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • An Anthropologist in Japan

    Glimpses of Life in the Field

    de Joy Hendry ...
    Series series The ASA Research Methods
    In this highly personal account Joy Hendry relates her experiences of fieldwork in a Japanese town and reveals a fascinating cross-section of Japanese life. She sets out on a study of politeness but a variety of unpredictable events including a volcanic eruption, a suicide and her son's involvement with the family of a poweful local gangster, begin to alter the direction of her research. The book ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Interpreting Japanese Society

    Anthropological Approaches

    Edición de Joy Hendry ...
    First published in 1986, Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in the field. In this newly revised and updated edition, the value of anthropological approaches to help understand an ancient and complex nation is clearly demonstrated.While living and working in Japan the contributors have studied important areas of society. Religion, ritual, leisure, family and social ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • An Anthropology of Indirect Communication

    Edición de Joy Hendry, C.W. Watson ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    Sometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called 'indirection'. From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence this incisive collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many aspects of indirect communication. From a Mormon Theme Park to carnival time on Montserrat the ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour

    Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect

    Edición de Joy Hendry, Laara Fitznor ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest. Participants from around the world share their views and opinions on subjects ranging from ideas for reconciliation, the question of what might constitute a ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Marriage in Changing Japan

    Community & Society

    de Joy Hendry ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    This book approaches its subject from two angles. First, there is a detailed and descriptive analysis of the social organisation of, and place of marriage in, one community in Kyushu. To this extent, the study is a regional one and provides valuable ethnographic information. The second angle, however, is to analyse this material in the light of other historical ethnographical writings on Japan, ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Anthropology

    An Audio Guide

    Narrado por Damian Lynch ...
    Series series Bolinda Beginner Guides

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    6 hora 12 minutos

    In this illuminating tour of humanity, Joy Hendry and Simon Underdown reveal the origins of our species, and the fabric of human society, through the discipline of anthropology. Via fascinating case studies and discoveries, they unravel our understanding of human behaviours and beliefs, including how witchcraft has been used to justify misfortune, and debunk old-fashioned ideas about 'race' based ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    A Cultural History

    de Sarah Chaplin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.Representing a timely ... Leer más

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