Wrapping Culture

Author : Joy Hendry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198280289

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Wrapping Culture examines problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of Japanese gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations are often influenced by cultural factors which may blind us to an appreciation of underlying intent. She extends this approach to the study of polite language as the wrapping of thoughts and intentions, garments as body wrappings, constructions and gardens as wrapping of space. Hendry shows how this extends even to the ways in which people may be wrapped in seating arrangements, or meetings and drinking customs may be constrained by temporal versions of wrapping. Throughout the book, Hendry considers ways in which groups of people use such symbolic forms to impress and manipulate one another, and points out a Western tendency to underestimate such nonverbal communication, or reject it as mere decoration. She presents ideas that should be valid in any intercultural encounter and demonstrates that Japanese culture, so often thought of as a special case, can supply a model through which we can formulate general theories about human behavior.

Author : Susanna Harris,Laurence Douny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315415642

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Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture by Susanna Harris,Laurence Douny Pdf

This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.

Author : Paul Atkinson,Sara Delamont,William Housley
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759107068

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Contours of Culture by Paul Atkinson,Sara Delamont,William Housley Pdf

In Contours of Culture the authors address practical and theoretical problems of using ethnographic methods in the study of culture, drawing on their field research with an opera company, Welsh artists, and classes on a popular Brazilian martial art.

Author : Joy Hendry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000184235

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The Orient Strikes Back by Joy Hendry Pdf

At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese ‘villages' and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds' Fairs . At the beginning of the 21st Century, Japanese tourists have reversed the gaze and now may visit a range of European ‘countries', as well as several other cultural worlds, without ever leaving the shores of Japan. This book suggests that these and other exciting Asian theme parks pose a challenge to Western notions of leisure, education, and entertainment. Is this a case of reverse orientalism? Or is it simply a commercial follow-up on the success of Tokyo Disneyland? Is it an appropriation by one rich nation of a whole world of cultural delights from the countries that have influenced its twentieth-century success? Can the parks be seen as political statements about the heritage on which Japan now draws so freely? Or are they new forms of ethnographic museum? Examining Japanese parks in the context of a variety of historical examples of cultural display in Europe, the U.S. and Australia, as well as other Asian examples, the author calls into question the too easy adoption of postmodern theory as an ethnocentrically Western phenomenon and clearly shows that Japan has given theme parks an entirely new mode of interpretation.

Author : Ivona Barešová
Publisher : Ivona Baresova
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Commercial correspondence
ISBN : 9788024420769

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Politeness Strategies in Cross-cultural Perspective by Ivona Barešová Pdf

Author : Michael Ashkenazi,Jeanne Jacob,Michael Ashkenazi Michael Ashkenazi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136815560

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The Essence of Japanese Cuisine by Michael Ashkenazi,Jeanne Jacob,Michael Ashkenazi Michael Ashkenazi Pdf

The past few years have shown a growing interest in cooking and food, as a result of international food issues such as BSE, world trade and mass foreign travel, and at the same time there has been growing interest in Japanese Studies since the 1970s. This volume brings together the two interests of Japan and food, examining both from a number of perspectives. The book reflects on the social and cultural side of Japanese food, and at the same time reflects also on the ways in which Japanese culture has been affected by food, a basic human institution. Providing the reader with the historical and social bases to understand how Japanese cuisine has been and is being shaped, this book assumes minimal familiarity with Japanese society, but instead explores the country through the topic of its cuisine.

Author : Marja Sarvimaki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317480617

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Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers by Marja Sarvimaki Pdf

Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers explains methods in evidence-based design, also called practice-based research, to show you the value of research to your designs. Topics covered pertain to data collection and analysis techniques, including surveys, interviews, fieldwork, participatory design, occupancy evaluations, and memory sketching. Integrative data evaluation, theoretical sampling, triangulation, pattern matching logic, and analytical generalization are also discussed. Global research precedents, exercises, further reading, section summaries, sidebars, more than 30 black and white images and tables will help you conduct empirical inquiries in real-life contexts.

Author : Brian Moeran
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824824377

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Asian Media Productions by Brian Moeran Pdf

Working in the fields of anthropology and media and culture studies, and on the basis of extensive, hands-on research, the contributors have collaborated on a substantial volume on the social practices and cultural attitudes of people producing, reading, watching, and listening to different kinds of media in Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and India.

Author : Peter B Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134249787

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Bibliography of Japanese New Religious Movements by Peter B Clarke Pdf

Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.

Author : Rupert Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136855580

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The Zen Arts by Rupert Cox Pdf

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment. This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts and images emerged fully as systems for representing the arts during the modern period, produced within Japan as a form of cultural nationalism and outside Japan as part of an orientalist discourse. Practitioners' experiences are in fact rarely referred to in terms of Zen or art, but instead are spatially and socially grounded. Combining anthropological description with historical criticism, Cox shows that the Zen arts are best understood in terms of a dynamic relationship between an aesthetic discourse on art and culture and the social and embodied experiences of those who participate in them.

Author : Joy Hendry,C.W. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134539178

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An Anthropology of Indirect Communication by Joy Hendry,C.W. Watson Pdf

Sometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called 'indirection'. From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence this incisive collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many aspects of indirect communication. From a Mormon Theme Park to carnival time on Montserrat the contributors analyse indirection by illustrating how food, silence, sunglasses, martial arts and rudeness call constitute powerful ways of conveying meaning. An Anthropology of Indirect Communication is an engaging text which provides a challenging introduction to this subject.

Author : Caroline Humphrey,Ruth Mandel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189285

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Markets and Moralities by Caroline Humphrey,Ruth Mandel Pdf

Before the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, private marketeering was regarded not only as criminal, but even immoral by socialist regimes. Ten years after taking on board western market-orientated shock therapy, post-socialist societies are still struggling to come to terms with the clash between these deeply engrained moralities and the daily pressures to sell and consume. This book explores the new market and its resulting contradictions in a rapidly developing Eastern Europe and Russia. Will Western fast-food industries irrevocably alter local culinary practices? What effect has the privatization of land had upon ownership and exchange? What role do new commodities play within the household? Based on original, first-hand ethnography, this book is a long-awaited addition to existing literature on post-socialist societies. It will be essential reading for students of anthropology, sociology, European and cultural studies, as well as professional groups working in Eastern Europe and Russia, including NGOs, development organizations and businesses.

Author : Maris Boyd Gillette
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804764346

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Between Mecca and Beijing by Maris Boyd Gillette Pdf

"Between Mecca and Beijing" examines how a community of urban Chinese Muslims uses consumption to position its members more favorably within the Chinese government's official paradigm for development. Residents of the old Muslim district in the ancient Chinese capital of Xi'an belong to an official minority (the Hui nationality) that has been classified by the state as "backward" in comparison to China's majority (Han) population. Though these Hui urbanites, like the vast majority of Chinese citizens, accept the assumptions about social evolution upon which such labels are based, they actively reject the official characterization of themselves as less civilized and modern than the Han majority. By selectively consuming goods and adopting fashions they regard as modern and non-Chinese--which include commodities and styles from both the West and the Muslim world--these Chinese Muslims seek to demonstrate that they are capable of modernizing without the guidance or assistance of the state. In so doing, they challenge one of the fundamental roles the Chinese Communist government has claimed for itself, that of guide and purveyor of modernity. Through a detailed study of the daily life--eating habits, dress styles, housing, marriage and death rituals, religious practices, education, family organization--of the Hui inhabitants of Xi'an, the author explores the effects of a state-sponsored ideology of progress on an urban Chinese Muslim neighborhood.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004213197

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Performing Japan by Anonim Pdf

Timing & Time Perception Review is the forum for all psychophysical, neuroimaging, pharmacological, computational, and theoretical advances on the topic of timing and time perception in humans and other animals. Timing & Time Perception Review has a multidisciplinary approach to the synergy of: Neuroscience and Philosophy for understanding the concept of time, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence for adapting basic research to artificial agents, Psychiatry, Neurology, Behavioral and Computational Sciences for neuro-rehabilitation and modeling of the disordered brain, to name just a few.

Author : Kai Hammerich,Richard D. Lewis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118608548

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Fish Can't See Water by Kai Hammerich,Richard D. Lewis Pdf

How national culture impacts organizational culture—and business success Using extensive case studies of successful global corporations, this book explores the impact of national culture on the corporate strategy and its execution, and through this ultimately business success—or failure. It does not argue that different cultures lead to different business results, but that all cultures impact organizations in ways both positive and negative, depending on the business cycle, the particular business, and the particular strategies being pursued. Depending on all of these factors, cultural dynamics can either enable or derail performance. But recognizing those cultural factors is difficult for business leaders; like everyone else, they too can be blind to the culture of which they are a part. The book offers managers and leaders eight recommendations for recognizing those cultural factors that negatively impact performance, as well as those that can be harnessed to encourage superior performance. With real case studies from companies in Asia, Europe, and the United States, this book offers a truly global approach to organizational culture. Offers a fresh approach to the effects of national culture on organizational culture that is applicable to any country in any region Based on case studies of such companies as Toyota, Samsung, General Motors, Nokia, Walmart, Kone and British Leyland It describes the origins and nature of the most common corporate crisis and how culture impacts the response to such a crisis Ideal for managers, business leaders, and board members, as well as business school students A welcome response to the flat-Earth fad that argues we're all alike, this book offers a nuanced and practical view of cultural differentiators and how they can enable or derail business performance.