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An Affair with a Village by Joy Hendry 9781999696269
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999696269Author Joy HendryFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint -
Japan at Play Joy Hendry 9780415379373
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This 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... -
Anthropology: A Beginner's Guide by Joy Hendry
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23In 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... -
Understanding Japanese Society Joy Hendry 9781032871530
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.41In 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... -
An Anthropology of Indirect Communication Joy Hendry 9780415247450
Booksplease Price: $106.49Sometimes 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... -
An Anthropologist in Japan: Glimpses of Life in the Field by Joy Hendry
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35In 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... -
Marriage in Changing Japan: Community & Society by Joy Hendry
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82This 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,... -
Interpreting Japanese Society: Anthropological Approaches Joy Hendry 9780415172684
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.26First 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... -
An Introduction to Social Anthropology: Sharing Our Worlds by Joy Hendry 9781137431547
Booksplease Price: $80.03An essential core textbook that leads the reader from Social Anthropology's foundational approaches and theories to the fundamental areas that characterise the field today. Taking a truly global and... -
The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display Joy Hendry 9781859733332
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50At 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,... -
Sharing Our Worlds: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology by Joy Hendry 9781479883684
Booksplease Price: $75.05Sharing Our Worlds offers readers the perfect introduction to cultural and social anthropology, introducing the classic theoretical ideas of its key founders and placing them in their historical and... -
Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy: Essays in Honour of Jan van Bremen by Joy Hendry
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82It 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... -
Anthropology: Why It Matters Tim Ingold 9781509519804
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.93Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that... -
Anthropology: Why It Matters Tim Ingold 9781509519798
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $76.23Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that... -
Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour: Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9781138008861
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18This 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,... -
Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous People and Self-Representation by J. Hendry 9781403970718
Booksplease Price: $98.15This book focuses on the renewal (or rekindling) of cultural identity, especially in populations previously considered 'extinct'. At the same time, Hendry sets out to explain the importance of... -
Japanese Sense of Self by Nancy R. Rosenberger 9780521466370
Booksplease Price: $97.21The essays in this collection look at how the Japanese see themselves and others, in a variety of contexts, and challenge many Western assumptions about Japanese society. Through their own... -
The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure by Sepp Linhart 9780791437926
Booksplease Price: $59.28The Culture of Japan as Seen through Its Leisure brings together scholars of various disciplines from around the globe to discuss different forms of leisure activities in past and present Japan, thus... -
Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom by J. Hendry 9781137435910
Booksplease Price: $192.74Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes... -
Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom by J. Hendry 9781137435903
Booksplease Price: $193.18Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes... -
Performing Japan: Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity by Henry Johnson 9781905246311
Booksplease Price: $243.60For the first time, using an interdisciplinary, theoretical and ethnographic approach, the editors have brought together a rich collection of current research on contemporary Japanese performance... -
Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture by Irina Holca 9781793623898
Booksplease Price: $85.66This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars... -
Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture by Irina Holca 9781793623874
Booksplease Price: $235.47This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars... -
Educating Hearts and Minds: Reflections on Japanese Preschool and Elementary Education by Catherine C. Lewis 9780521458320
Booksplease Price: $113.74How do children become eager, motivated learners and caring, responsible citizens? Educating Hearts and Minds, first published in 1995, is a portrait of Japanese preschool and early elementary... -
After the Ancestors: An Anthropologist's Story by Andrew Beatty
Booksplease Price: $64.79Set on an isolated Indonesian island, this is the gripping true story of a fieldworker's experience of living in a tribal society during a period of crisis. Featuring a cast of unforgettable... -
Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology: The Collaborative Moment by Paul Sillitoe 9780367668990
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Advancing the rising field of engaged or participatory anthropology that is emerging at the same time as increased opposition from Indigenous peoples to research, this book offers critical... -
Ruth Benedict: Beyond Relativity, Beyond Pattern by Virginia Heyer Young 9780803249196
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $83.58Considered one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was trained by Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons and collaborated with the equally... -
Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany) 9780415731270
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $116.09As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation's most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the beauty... -
Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club by Akiko Takeyama
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In the host clubs of Tokyo's Kabuki-cho red-light district, ambitious young men seek their fortunes by selling love, romance, companionship, and sometimes sex to female consumers for exorbitant sums... -
Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society by Victoria Bestor
RRP: $128.08Booksplease Price: $119.68The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of... -
Popularizing Japanese TV: The Cultural, Economic, and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse by Hakan Ergül
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Over the past years, the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse. The book extends this view, detailing and interpreting the cultural, economic, and...