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The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy and Feeling - Japan Anthropology Workshop Series 1st edition
Tahhan, Diana Adis (University of New South Wales, Australia)
The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy and Feeling - Japan Anthropology Workshop Series 1st edition
Tahhan, Diana Adis (University of New South Wales, Australia)
This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child?s life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playschools and then schools. It shows how touch and physical contact are important for engendering intimacy and feeling, and how intimacy and feeling continue even when physical contact lessens. It relates the position in Japan to theoretical writing, in both Japan and the West, on body, mind, intimacy and feeling, and compares the position in Japan to practices elsewhere. Overall, the book makes a significant contribution to the study of and theories on body practices, and to debates on the processes of socialisation in Japan.
184 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 8, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9780415740289 |
Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Pages | 184 |
Dimensions | 161 × 242 × 15 mm · 414 g |
Language | English |