Crafting Selves Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace

Name: Crafting Selves Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
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ISBN: 9780226450445

ISBN-10: 0226450449

ISBN-13: 9780226450445

Edition: 1990

Authors: Dorinne K. Kondo

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"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature."--Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist "Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on complexity. Kondo shows that inequalities are not simply oppressive-they are meaningful ways to establish…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Romanization



Settings



The Eye/IThe ""Setting"" Trope


How the Problem Emerged


Japanese Selves and Their Challenge to the ""Whole Subject""Displacing the Binary: Anthropological Studies of The Self



Industries, Communities, Identities


The Industrial Context, Firm Size, and Identity


Shitamachi and Yamanote



Disciplined Selves


The Ethics RetreatA Day at the CenterSpecial Events


Theories of Selfhood: The Dialectic of Form and Feeling


Japanese Selves and the Ethics Doctrines



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