Unwrapping Japan

Eyal Ben-Ari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Brian Moeran, Jim Valentine

• 1. Introduction: Rapt Discourses: Anthropology, Japanism and Japan Brian Moeran 2. Humidity, Hygiene or Ritual Care: Some Thoughts on Wrapping as a Social Phenomenon Joy Hendry 3. On the Borderlines: The Significance of Marginality in Japanese Society James Valentine 4. The Feminine in Japanese Folk Religion: Polluted or Divine? Teigo Yoshida 5. Intelligent Elegance: Women in Japanese Advertising Keiko Tanaka 6. Tourism and the Ama: The Search for a Real Japan D. P. Martine. 7. Making An Exhibition of Oneself: The Anthropologist as Potter in Japan Brian Moeran 8.Many Voices, Partial Worlds: On Some Conventions and Innovations in the Ethnographic Portrayal of Japan Eyal Ben-Ari 9. Deconstructing an Anthropological Text: A 'Moving' Account of Returnee Schoolchildren in Contemporary Japan Roger Goodman 10. Sea Tenure and the Japanese Experience: Resource Management in Coastal Fisheries Arne Kalland 11.Festival Management and the Corporate Analysis of Japanese Society Michael Ashkenazi 12. Wrapping Up: Some General Implications Eyal Ben-Ari