Download or read book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword written by Ruth Benedict and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. Benedict's World War II-era study paints an illuminating contrast between the culture of Japan and that of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our cultures differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.
Download or read book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword written by Ruth Benedict and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-11T11:45:00Z with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a profound and comprehensive presentation of Japanese daily manners and customs, a study and history of human thought discussing Japan's conduct of World War ll. Author Ruth Benedict revealed the intricate views of the Japanese & more with political, religious and economic issues as well as sexual conduct, Geisha, prostitution, and marriage in their daily lives. A classic of cultural anthropology.
Download or read book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Patterns of Japanese Culture written by Ruth Benedict and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a perspective of Japanese culture in 'The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture' by Ruth Benedict. Drawing upon her meticulous research during World War II for the U.S. Office of War Information, Benedict unravels the intricate tapestry of Japanese customs and traditions. Through an ingenious blend of literary analysis, firsthand accounts, and cultural artifacts, she uncovers the enigmatic contradictions that shape the essence of Japan. Delving into topics such as honor, shame, and the complexities of wartime behavior, Benedict provides a nuanced understanding of Japanese society.
Download or read book The Unnamable Archipelago Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought written by Dennitza Gabrakova and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Unnamable Archipelago: Wounds of the Postcolonial in Postwar Japanese Literature and Thought, Dennitza Gabrakova discusses how the island imagery in the works by Imafuku Ryūta, Ukai Satoshi, Ōba Minako, Ariyoshi Sawako, Hino Keizō, Ikezawa Natsuki, Shimada Masahiko and Tawada Yōko shapes a critical understanding of Japan on multiple intersections of trauma and sovereignty. The book attempts an engagement with the vocabulary of postcolonial critique, while attending to the complexity of its translation into Japanese.
Download or read book Japanese Mind written by Roger J. Davies and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others' benevolence), amakudari (the nation's descent from heaven), chinmoku (silence in communication), gambari (perseverance), giri (social obligation), haragei (literally, "belly art"; implicit, unspoken communication), kenkyo (the appearance of modesty), sempai-kohai (seniority), wabi-sabi (simplicity and elegance), and zoto (gift giving), as well as discussions of child-rearing, personal space, and the roles of women in Japanese society. It includes discussion topics and questions after each chapter. All in all, this book is an easy-to-use introduction to the distinguishing characteristics of Japanese society; an invaluable resource for anyone--business people, travelers, or students--perfect for course adoption, but also for anyone interested in Japanese culture. Next in this series: Now available separately, Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations is a fascinating journey through Japan's rich cultural history.
Download or read book Thai Culture and Behavior written by Ruth Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Japanese Society written by Joy Hendry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Japan enters the 21st century with a new emperor, this title continues to be an indispensable guide through often enigmatic and historical idiosyncrasies of Japanese culture and politics that are often confusing to the outsider. This title includes information on the latest social developments, customs, rituals, business culture, medicine and arts.
Download or read book Ruth Benedict written by Virginia Heyer Young and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict's work, in fact, anticipated trends in anthropology in the decades to come by projecting a framework of individuals not only shaped by their culture but also using their culture for personal or collective objectives."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The New Japan written by David Ricky Matsumoto and published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book sets out to describe the anxiety and unrest that plague current Japanese society, the rift between the older, more traditional generations and the younger, more cosmopolitan and Westernized generations. Citing current academic studies and surveys, the author debunks seven common stereotypes of Japanese culture: collectivism, consciousness of others, perceptions of self, emotionality, the 'salaryman', education and lifetime employment, marriage." -- BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Study of Culture at a Distance written by Margaret Mead and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953 Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux produced The Study of Culture at a Distance, a compilation of research from this period. This work, long unavailable, presents a rich and complex methodology for the study of cultures through literature, film, informant interviews, focus groups, and projective techniques.
Download or read book An Anthropologist at Work written by Ruth Benedict and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Mead, who was Benedict's student, colleague, and eventually her biographer, here has collected the bulk of Ruth Benedict's writings. This includes letters between these two seminal anthropologists, correspondence with Franz Boas (Benedict's teacher), Edward Sapir's poems, and notes from studies that Benedict had collected throughout her life. Since Benedict wrote little, Mead has fleshed out the narratives by adding background information on Benedict's life, work, and the cultural atmosphere of the time.Ruth Benedict formed her own view of the contribution of anthropology before the first steps were taken in the study of how individual human beings, with their given potentialities, came to embody their culture. In her later work, she came to accept and sometimes to use the work in culture and personality that depended as much upon social psychology as upon cultural anthropology. She came to recognize that society - made up of persons or organized in groups - was as important as a subject of study as the culture of a society.This volume, greatly enhanced by Mead's contributions, is a record of what was important to Benedict in her life and work. It is expertly ordered and assembled in a way that will be accessible to students and professionals alike.
Download or read book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword written by Ruth Benedict (Anthropologist, United States) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hollow Doll written by William Bohnaker and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An academic who has lived and taught in Japan, Bohnaker says that Japan is a country in which a highly "formulaic" and ritualized culture overlays an often desperate, prejudiced, and unhappy reality: Japanese sarari-men (white collar workers) are married to the work place and seek release in after-work bouts of drunkenness; women occupy a decidedly unequal place in society; children are driven (sometimes to suicide) by a brutal educational system; et cetera While there is considerable truth in much of what Bohnaker says, he doesn't discuss the concomitant weaknesses of Western culture or the Japanese philosophic and aesthetic values that endure outside the realm of mass culture.
Download or read book Native Anthropology written by Takami Kuwayama and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of this book is the position of 'natives' in what the author calls the world system of anthropology. This book shows how anthropological knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed on a global scale.
Download or read book Japan Diaries written by Geraldine Sherman and published by McArthur & Company Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imperial Genus written by Travis Workman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan’s cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the human’s genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science. Imperial Genus focuses on how notions of human generality mediated uncertainty between the transcendental and the empirical, the universal and the particular, and empire and colony. It shows how cosmopolitan cultural principles, the proletarian arts, and Pan-Asian imperial nationalism converged with practices of colonial governmentality. It is a genealogy of the various articulations of the human’s genus-being within modern humanist thinking in East Asia, as well as an exploration of the limits of the human as both concept and historical figure.
Download or read book Wonderful Life with the Elements written by Bunpei Yorifuji and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the brilliant mind of Japanese artist Bunpei Yorifuji comes Wonderful Life with the Elements, an illustrated guide to the periodic table that gives chemistry a friendly face. In this super periodic table, every element is a unique character whose properties are represented visually: heavy elements are fat, man-made elements are robots, and noble gases sport impressive afros. Every detail is significant, from the length of an element's beard to the clothes on its back. You'll also learn about each element's discovery, its common uses, and other vital stats like whether it floats—or explodes—in water. Why bother trudging through a traditional periodic table? In this periodic paradise, the elements are people too. And once you've met them, you'll never forget them.
