University of Hawaii Press 2004 Softcover Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

University of Hawaii Press 2004 Paperback Good 0824828178. This book is in good condition; no remainder marks. The book has some shelfwear. Several underlined passages and margin notes. Solid study or reading copy but not for collectors.; 0.65 x 9 x 5.86 Inches; 264 pages.

ISBN10: 0824828178, ISBN13: 9780824828172, [publisher: University of Hawaii Press] Softcover This book is in good condition; no remainder marks. The book has some shelfwear. Several underlined passages and margin notes. Solid study or reading copy but not for collectors. ; 0.65 x 9 x 5.86 Inches; 264 pages
[PFLUGERVILLE, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2004]

University of Hawaii Press, Date: 2004. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2004. University of Hawaii Press ISBN 0824828178 9780824828172 [US]

ISBN10: 0824828178, ISBN13: 9780824828172, [publisher: University of Hawaii Press] Softcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01
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ISBN10: 0824828178, ISBN13: 9780824828172, [publisher: University of Hawaii Press] Softcover Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kuzaki-cho) at a particular moment in time (the 1980s), D. P. Martinez addresses a variety of issues currently at the fore in the anthropology of Japan: the construction of identity, both for a place and its people; the importance of ritual in a country that describes itself as nonreligious; and the relationship between men and women in a society where gender divisions are still very much in place. Kuzaki is, for the anthropologist, both a microcosm of modernity and an attempt to bring the past into the present. But it must also be understood as a place all of its own. In the 1980s it was one of the few villages where female divers (ama) still collected abalone and other shellfish and where some of its inhabitants continued to make a living as fishermen. Kuzaki was also a kambe, or sacred guild, of Ise Shrine, the most important Shinto shrine in modern Japan-home to Amaterasu, the sun goddess. Kuzakis rituals affirmed a national identity in an era when attitudes to modernity and Japaneseness were being challenged by globalization.Martinez enhances her fascinating ethnographic description of a single diving village with a critique of the way in which the anthropology of Japan has developed. The result is a sophisticated investigation by a senior scholar of Japanese studies that, while firmly grounded in empirical data, cal ...

Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. : Univ of Hawaii Pr 2004 Soft cover Good Trade paperback in near fine condition. some underlining in pencil.

ISBN10: 0824828178, ISBN13: 9780824828172, [publisher: University of Hawaii Press] Softcover
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