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| Foreword to second edition | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Note on the text | ||
| Introduction: the contribution of social anthropology to Japanese studies | 1 | |
| 1 | Time in the Japanese ritual year | 15 |
| 2 | Spatial characterization of human temporality in the Ryukyus | 31 |
| 3 | The Pythagorean view of time and space in Japan | 42 |
| 4 | The question of space: from Heidegger to Watsuji | 57 |
| 5 | Contested identities and models of action in Japanese discourses of place-making: an interpretive study | 68 |
| 6 | Time, space and person in Japanese relationships | 91 |
| 7 | Is the ie disappearing in rural Japan?: the impact of tourism on a traditional Japanese village | 117 |
| 8 | Death rites in Japan in the twentieth century | 131 |
| 9 | A child in time: changing adoption and fostering in Japan | 145 |
| 10 | Gods, ancestors and mediators: a cosmology from the South-western Archipelago of Japan | 167 |
| 11 | The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity in Japanese villages | 182 |
| 12 | 'Years of calamity': yakudoshi observances in urban Japan | 194 |
| 13 | Redefining Kuzaki: ritual, belief and cho boundaries | 213 |
| 14 | Science and religious movements in Japan: hi-tech healers and computerized cults | 222 |
| 15 | Sakariba: zone of 'evaporation' between work and home? | 231 |
| 16 | One over the seven: sake drinking in a Japanese pottery community | 243 |
| 17 | Models of performance: space, time and social organization in Japanese dance | 259 |
| Name index | 282 | |
| Subject index | 286 |
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Sean Farrar
reviewed Interpreting Japanese Society on August 11, 2013
Interpreting Japanese Society
This is an eclectic collection of stories, anecdotes, essays and journal entries. The stories tend to the melancholic, which is well served by Hearn's elegant, atmospheric style. They've probably aged better then the essays, which are quite of their time. References to racial type, which might be quite reasonable in other words, grate. And the Japan that Hearn describes is quite different from Japan now, certainly when it comes to the cityscape. You wonder what he'd think of how things have changed. But most of the essays are actually rather metaphysical, being on Buddhism, or the Japanese concept of the soul. Some of them are better than others, but they all paint an intriguing picture of another world - a world now distant in time, and not just space.
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