Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View [First Edition] 0521277868, 9780511621772, 9780521259828, 9780521277860

Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View [First Edition] 0521277868, 9780511621772, 9780521259828, 9780521277860

Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultura

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A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan 9780801467998

Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for

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Islam Obscured: The Rhetoric of Anthropological Representation (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) [First Edition] 1403967725, 9781403967725, 9781403973429

Islam Obscured analyzes four seminal anthropology texts on Muslims that have been read widely outside the discipline. Tw

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Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition 1315421917, 9781315421919

A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The U

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Straitjacket Society: An Insider's Irreverrent View of Bureaucratic Japan 4770018487

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The Zen Arts : An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan [1 ed.] 9781136855511, 9780700714759

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism,

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The Architecture of Japan [First Edition]

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The Egalitarians - Human and Chimpanzee: An Anthropological View of Social Organization 0521400163, 9780521400169

This innovative book challenges the perceived view, based largely on long observation of artificially fed chimpanzees in

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Team Teachers in Japan [First Edition] 9781000912135, 9781032265841, 9781032265858, 9781003288961

This book provides insights into the professional and personal lives of local language teachers and foreign language tea

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Homelessness and Mental Illness: Exploring the Lived Experience in India [First Edition] 103219572X, 9781032195728

This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental il

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