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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Nobuko Adachi
Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune Book PDF

Author : Nobuko Adachi
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498544856

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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune by Nobuko Adachi Pdf

This is a book about the power ethnic capital and how it drives both the economics of, and the quest for identity in, a Japanese Brazilian commune. Adachi tells readers what this small diaspora community can teach us about how life “in the trenches” looks to those on the outskirts of the exploding transnational world economy. This book explores the various strategies locals use to compete with others with whom they are linked locally, nationally, and globally. Through the story of Kubo daily life, Adachi offers insights into important aspects of social and linguistic theory, as well as explicating how cross-border relations become more and more intertwined. In a sense, Kubo’s story, with its struggles to maintain its identity—even its survival—in an increasingly globalized world, encapsulates many of the problems now faced by smaller communities around the world, be they diasporic or regionally entrenched, or ethnically, racially, or religiously composed. Adachi explores the motivations for racial and ethnic boundary-making based primarily on values and principles rather than purely physiological features by focusing on Kubo and its marketing of supposedly traditional Japanese cultural values, in spite of the commune being located in the interior of Brazil. To do this she incorporates notions from linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, including problems of language maintenance, the relationships between language and symbolic power, and the intricacies of language and gender. Doing so helps theorize the tensions between hybridity and purity entailed in the complexities of identity dynamics.

Oktoberfest in Brazil

Audrey Ricke
Oktoberfest in Brazil Book PDF

Author : Audrey Ricke
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817360900

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Oktoberfest in Brazil by Audrey Ricke Pdf

An ethnography that explores Brazil's domestic tourism through sensescapes and the economy of aesthetics framework

Overcoming Ptolemy

Geoffrey C. Gunn
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Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498590143

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Overcoming Ptolemy by Geoffrey C. Gunn Pdf

Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system bequeathed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago. This is all the more important when we consider the longevity of the Ptolemaic construct through and beyond the European age of discovery allowing as well for its eventual revision or refinement. Innovations in navigational science, cartographic representations, and textual description are all called upon to illustrate this theme. With its focus upon the macro-region termed India Extra Gangem, literally the space between India and China, the book unfolds a fourfold agenda. First, it explains the Ptolemaic world system back to classical points of reference as well as to its reception in late medieval Europe from Arabic sources. Second, it tracks the erosion of the Ptolemaic template especially in the light of new empirical data entering Europe from early travel accounts as well as the first voyages of discovery. Third, through selected examples, as with India, Southeast Asia, and China, it seeks to expose textual and cartographic adjustments to the classical models flowing from the scientific revolution.Fourth, through an examination of Jesuit astronomical observations conducted at various points in Asia, it demonstrates how Eurasia was actually measured and sized with respect to its true longitudinal coordinates such had deluded Columbus and even succeeding generations. In short, this work problematizes the creation of geographical knowledge, raises awareness as to the making of region in Asia over long historical time—the Ptolemaic world-in-motion—and, as a more latent agenda, sounds an alert as to the perils of overdetermination in the setting of modern boundaries whether upon land or sea.

Poetry and Terror

Peter Dale Scott
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Author : Peter Dale Scott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498576673

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Poetry and Terror by Peter Dale Scott Pdf

A study at many levels of Scott’s long poem Coming to Jakarta, a book-length response to a midlife crisis triggered in part by the author’s initial inability to share his knowledge and horror about American involvement in the great Indonesian massacre of 1965. Interviews with Ng supply fuller information about the poem’s discussions of: a) how this psychological trauma led to an explorations of violence in American society and then, after a key recognition, in the poet himself; b) the poem's look at east-west relations through the lens of the yin-yang, spiritual-secular doubleness of the human condition; c) how the process of writing the poem led to the recovery of memories too threatening at first to be retained by his normal presentational self, and d) the mystery of right action, guided by the Bhagavad Gita and the maxim in the Gospel of Thomas that "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.” Led by the interviews to greater self-awareness, Scott then analyses his poem as also an elegy, not just for the dead in Indonesia, but “for the passing of the Sixties era, when so many of us imagined that a Movement might achieve major changes for a better America.” Subsequent chapters develop how human doubleness can lead to an inner tension between the needs of politics and the needs of poetry, and how some poetry can serve as a non-violent higher politics, contributing to the evolution of human culture and thus our “second nature.” The book also reproduces a Scott prose essay, inspired by the poem, on the U.S. involvement in and support for the 1965 massacre. It then discusses how this essay was translated into Indonesian and officially banned by the Indonesian dictatorship, and how ultimately it and the poem helped inspire the ground-breaking films of Josh Oppenheimer that have led to the first official discussions in Indonesia of what happened in 1965.

Immigrant Japan

Gracia Liu-Farrer
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Author : Gracia Liu-Farrer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501748646

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Immigrant Japan by Gracia Liu-Farrer Pdf

Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants make their lives in Japan, dealing with the tensions between belonging and not belonging in this ethno-nationalist country. Why do people want to come to Japan? Where do immigrants with various resources and demographic profiles fit in the economic landscape? How do immigrants narrate belonging in an environment where they are "other" at a time when mobility is increasingly easy and belonging increasingly complex? Gracia Liu-Farrer illuminates the lives of these immigrants by bringing in sociological, geographical, and psychological theories—guiding the reader through life trajectories of migrants of diverse backgrounds while also going so far as to suggest that Japan is already an immigrant country.

The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940

S. Lone
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Author : S. Lone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403932792

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The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940 by S. Lone Pdf

On the eve of the Pacific war (1941-45), there were 198,000 Japanese in Brazil, the largest expatriate body outside East Asia. Yet the origins of this community have been obscured. The English-language library is threadbare while Japanese scholars routinely insist that life outside of Japan was filled with shock and hardship so that, as one historian asserted, 'their bodies were in Brazil but their minds were always in Japan'. This study redraws the world of the overseas Japanese. Using the Japanese-language press of Brazil, it explains the development of a community with its own, often aggressively independent or ironic views of identity, institutions, education, leisure, and on Japan itself. Emphasising the success of Japanese migrants and the openness of Brazilian society, it challenges the perceived wisdom that contact between Japanese and other peoples was always marked by hostility and racism.

Gender, Religion, and Migration

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio,Vivienne S. M. Angeles
Gender Religion and Migration Book PDF

Author : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio,Vivienne S. M. Angeles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739133136

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Gender, Religion, and Migration by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio,Vivienne S. M. Angeles Pdf

Gender, Religion, and Migration is the first collection of case studies on how religion impacts the lives of (im)migrant men, women, and youth in their integration in host societies in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America. It interrogates the populist ideology that religion is anathema to social integration in the post-9/11 era.

Japanese Brazilian Saudades

Ignacio López-Calvo
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Author : Ignacio López-Calvo
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607328506

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Japanese Brazilian Saudades by Ignacio López-Calvo Pdf

Japanese Brazilian Saudades explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Ignacio López-Calvo uses books and films by twentieth-century Nikkei authors as case studies to redefine the ideas of Brazilianness and Japaneseness from both a national and a transnational perspective. The result suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it pertains to the post–World War II experience of Nikkei people in Brazil. López-Calvo addresses the complex creation of Japanese Brazilian identities and the history of immigration, showing how the community has used writing as a form of reconciliation and affirmation of their competing identities as Japanese, Brazilian, and Japanese Brazilian. Japanese in Brazil have employed a twofold strategic, rhetorical engineering: the affirmation of ethno-cultural difference on the one hand, and the collective assertion of citizenship and belonging to the Brazilian nation on the other. López-Calvo also grapples with the community’s inclusion and exclusion in Brazilian history and literature, using the concept of “epistemicide” to refer to the government’s attempt to impose a Western value system, Brazilian culture, and Portuguese language on the Nikkeijin, while at the same time trying to destroy Japanese language and culture in Brazil by prohibiting Japanese language instruction in schools, Japanese-language publications, and even speaking Japanese in public. Japanese Brazilian Saudades contributes to the literature criticizing the “cognitive injustice” that fails to acknowledge the value of the global South and non-Western ways of knowing and being in the world. With important implications for both Latin American studies and Nikkei studies, it expands discourses of race, ethnicity, nationality, and communal belonging through art and narrative.

Understanding Karen Tei Yamashita

Jolie A. Sheffer
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Author : Jolie A. Sheffer
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781643360324

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Understanding Karen Tei Yamashita by Jolie A. Sheffer Pdf

Among the most trenchant and provocative writers of globalization, Karen Tei Yamashita is one of the most significant, ambitious, and widely taught Asian American writers today. In four genre-bending novels, a short story collection/travel essay collage, a family memoir, and more than a dozen performance/theater works, Yamashita weaves together postmodernism, magical realism, history, social protest, and a wicked sense of humor. Her fictions challenge familiar literary tropes, especially those expected of "multicultural writers," such as the now-clichéd conflict between first-generation immigrants and their American-born children. Instead her canvas is global, conjuring the unexpected intimacies and distances created by international capitalism, as people and goods traverse continents in asymmetrical circuits. Highlighting the connections between neoliberal economic policies, environmental devastation and climate change, anti-immigrant rhetoric, urban gentrification, and other issues that disproportionately affect historically underinvested and minority communities, Yamashita brings a uniquely transnational perspective to her portrayal of distinctly American preoccupations. Sheffer gives readers a concise introduction to Yamashita's life, provides lucid analysis of key motifs, and synthesizes major research on her work. Each chapter offers, in accessible prose, original interpretations of essential works and stages in her career: her Brazil-Japan migration trilogy comprising Brazil-Maru, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, and Circle K Cycles; the magical realist revision of the Los Angeles riots in Tropic of Orange; her historical magnum opus about Asian American activism in the long 1960s, I Hotel; her understudied theatrical and performance works collected in Anime Wong; and her recent familial memoir about Japanese American internment during World War II, Letters to Memory. In short the volume serves as both a lucid introduction to a challenging author and a valuable resource for students and scholars.

Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland

Takeyuki Tsuda
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Author : Takeyuki Tsuda
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231502344

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Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland by Takeyuki Tsuda Pdf

Since the late 1980s, Brazilians of Japanese descent have been "return" migrating to Japan as unskilled foreign workers. With an immigrant population currently estimated at roughly 280,000, Japanese Brazilians are now the second largest group of foreigners in Japan. Although they are of Japanese descent, most were born in Brazil and are culturally Brazilian. As a result, they have become Japan's newest ethnic minority. Drawing upon close to two years of multisite fieldwork in Brazil and Japan, Takeyuki Tsuda has written a comprehensive ethnography that examines the ethnic experiences and reactions of both Japanese Brazilian immigrants and their native Japanese hosts. In response to their socioeconomic marginalization in their ethnic homeland, Japanese Brazilians have strengthened their Brazilian nationalist sentiments despite becoming members of an increasingly well-integrated transnational migrant community. Although such migrant nationalism enables them to resist assimilationist Japanese cultural pressures, its challenge to Japanese ethnic attitudes and ethnonational identity remains inherently contradictory. Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland illuminates how cultural encounters caused by transnational migration can reinforce local ethnic identities and nationalist discourses.

A Discontented Diaspora

Jeff Lesser
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Author : Jeff Lesser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 661292361X

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A Discontented Diaspora by Jeff Lesser Pdf

Analyzes the experiences of a generation of Japanese-Brazilians in Sao Paulo during the most authoritarian period of military rule in order to ask questions about ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture.

Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

Jorge I Dominguez
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Author : Jorge I Dominguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135564971

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Race and Ethnicity in Latin America by Jorge I Dominguez Pdf

First Published in 1994. In nearly all racially and ethnically heterogeneous societies, there is overt national conflict among parties and social movements organized on the basis of race and ethnicity. Such conflict has been much less evident in Latin America. Scholars have pondered the nature of race and ethnicity with regard to both Afro- American and Indo-American societies, though research on Brazil has been particularly prominent. Special attention has been given to the relationship between social class and race and ethnicity.

Japan and Korea

Frank Joseph Shulman
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Author : Frank Joseph Shulman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135158163

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Japan and Korea by Frank Joseph Shulman Pdf

First Published in 1971. This annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations on Japan and Korea grew out of a decision to expand and bring up to date an earlier list entitled Unpublished Doctoral Dissertations Relating to Japan, Accepted in the Universities of Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1946-1963, compiled by Peter Cornwall and issued by the Center for Japanese Studies in 1965.

A Discontented Diaspora

Jeff Lesser
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Author : Jeff Lesser
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 082234081X

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A Discontented Diaspora by Jeff Lesser Pdf

DIVAnalyzes the experiences of a generation of Japanese-Brazilians in Sao Paulo during the most authoritarian period of military rule in order to ask questions about ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. /div

Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions

Charles Agyemang,Ama de-Graft Aikins
Culture Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions Book PDF

Author : Charles Agyemang,Ama de-Graft Aikins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134913800

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Culture, Ethnicity and Chronic Conditions by Charles Agyemang,Ama de-Graft Aikins Pdf

The global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension, diabetes and cancers, and of common mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, has a disproportionate impact on the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The pattern persists in African and Asian migrant populations in European and North American countries, despite the higher standards of living and improved health infrastructure. The consensus of experts is that pragmatic, cost-effective and sustainable interventions are required, and that these must prioritise the social determinants of NCDs as well as the social participation of affected communities. Despite the growing emphasis on the role of social processes in health system responses to chronic disease in LMICs, there has been no definitive volume that brings together LMIC perspectives on these issues. This book aims to address this major gap by presenting new conceptual and empirical perspectives on the interconnections between culture, ethnicity and chronic conditions in LMICs and their implications for research, intervention and policy. The chapters focus on lay and institutional meanings, experiences and responses to chronic conditions in selected countries in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnicity and Health.