Book Series in Asian Studies
Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
New & Published Titles:
Making Japanese Heritage
This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41314-5 (Routledge)
Community Volunteers in Japan
Everyday stories of social change
Volunteering is a recent and highly visible phenomenon in Japan, adopted as a meaningful social activity by millions of Japanese and covered widely in the… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54606-5 (Routledge)
Primary School in Japan
Self, Individuality and Learning in Elementary Education
The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan. A series of educational reforms since 1990, including the implementation of…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54536-5 (Routledge)
The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and Historical Perspectives
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.
It addresses a question…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54539-6 (Routledge)
Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy
Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen
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’…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54555-6 (Routledge)
Nature, Ritual, and Society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands
Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54564-8 (Routledge)
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The Care of the Elderly in Japan
The problems of an ageing population are particularly acute in Japan. These problems include people living longer, with many needing more care, and the problems… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54605-8 (Routledge)
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan
Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54568-6 (Routledge)
Globalisation and Japanese Organisational Culture
An Ethnography of a Japanese Corporation in France
Globalisation – the global movement, and control, of products, capital, technologies, persons and images – increasingly takes place through the work of organisations, perhaps the…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49216-4 (Routledge)
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Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture
This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed,…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47001-8 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Routledge is very proud to be publishing this important series, which has already signed up a good list of high quality books on interesting topics, and has a truly international range of authors and editors.
A key aim of the series is to present studies that offer a deep understanding of aspects of Japanese society and culture to offset the impression of constant change and frivolity that so tempts the mass media around the world. Living in Japan brings anyone into contact with the fervent mood of change, and former residents from many other countries enjoy reading about their temporary home, but there is a demand also to penetrate less obvious elements of this temporary life. Anthropologists specialise in digging beneath the surface, in peeling off and examining layers of cultural wrapping, and in gaining an understanding of language and communication that goes beyond formal presentation and informal frolicking. This series will help to open the eyes of readers around the world from many backgrounds to the work of these diligent anthropologists researching the social life of Japan.
Submissions from prospective authors are welcomed, and enquiries should be sent in the first instance to the series editor.
Forthcoming Titles:
Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria: The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries
By Yeeshan Chan
To be published November 22nd 2010
Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation
Edited by Richard Ronald, Allison Alexy
To be published November 5th 2010
Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony: The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
By Kaeko Chiba
To be published August 6th 2010