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1 online resource (362 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Acknowledgments; Note on Romanization; PART ONE: SETTINGS; The Eye/I; Industries, Communities, Identities; Disciplined Selves; PART TWO: FAMILY AS COMPANY, COMPANY AS FAMILY; Circles of Attachment; Adding the Family Flavor; Company as Family?; PART THREE: GENDER AND WORK IDENTITIES; The Aesthetics and Politics of Artisanal Identities; Uchi, Gender, and Part-Time Work; The Stakes; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
""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 compl. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women -- Employment -- Japan.
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Women -- Employment. |
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Japan. |
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Women -- Japan -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- Japan -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Group identity -- Japan.
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Group identity. |
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Self-perception in women -- Japan.
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Self-perception in women. |
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Women -- Japan -- Identity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Print version: Kondo, Dorinne K. Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009 9780226450438 |
| ISBN |
9780226098159 (electronic book) |
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022609815X (electronic book) |
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