Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place 9780824842376

Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kuzaki-cho) at a particular moment in time (the 1980s), D. P. Ma

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. On the Anthropologist and Her Subject
Chapter 2. Japan and the Ama
Chapter 3. Kuzaki: Making Place and Identity
Chapter 4. Organizing the Village: Dōkyūsei, the Kumi-ai, and the Nifune Festival
Chapter 5. Keeping the Ie Afloat: Part 1. Diving and Women’s Rituals
Chapter 6. Keeping the Ie Afloat: Part 2. Fishing, Tourism, and New Year’s Rituals
Chapter 7. Elders and Ancestors: Making and Becoming
Chapter 8. Ritual, Gender, and Identity
Notes
References
Index

Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place
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