Reclaiming Culture

Joy Hendry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She specializes in the study of Japan, but has also done fieldwork in Morocco, Canada and Mexico, and has made recent visits to China, Indonesia, Nepal and Uzbekistan. She is the author of many books including Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies and Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous Peoples and Self-Representation , which was picked by Choice magazine as one of their 'outstanding academic titles' in 2006.

• Museums are Transformed Aboriginal Tourism and that Elusive Authenticity Indigenous of Alternative Forms of Cultural Display Language and Formal Cultural Education Arts, Architecture, and Native Creativity Land Claims, Archaeology, and New Communities International Links, Cultural Exchange and Personal Identity Conclusions: What Can We Learn?

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006'Reclaiming Culture offers an engaging and accessible introduction to the complex issues surrounding indigenous self-representation.' - Veronica Strang, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute