Negotiating Identity In Contemporary Japan 1136178120, 9781136178122

Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan 0674088409, 9780674088405

The Burakumin. Stigmatized throughout Japanese history as an outcaste group, their identity is still risky, their social

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Financial Politics in Contemporary Japan 9781501737718

Drawing on interviews with prominent bureaucratic, business, and political actors, Frances McCall Rosenbluth provides th

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Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan 9781501733147

An approach that acknowledges the pervasiveness and importance of continuous bargaining, they maintain, promises to enha

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Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia: Women, Migration, and the Diaspora 9781782383079

Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and politic

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Disability and Identity: Negotiating Self in a Changing Society 9781626370951

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! Rosalyn Darling offers a sweeping examination of disability and identity, parsing the

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Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan 9780415857451

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Negotiating death in contemporary health and social care 9781447342540

Once regarded as taboo, it is now claimed that we are a death-obsessed society. The face of death in the 21st century, b

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A Peaceful Jihad: Negotiating Identity and Modernity in Muslim Java (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion) 1403966583, 9781403966582, 9781403980298

Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively n

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Latino Identity in Contemporary America 9781138676541, 9780415686341

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Contemporary Government Reform in Japan: The Dual State in Flux

This book examines several major reforms in Japan — in the postal business, transportation, telecommunications, and comm

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