By Joy Hendry
During this hugely own account pleasure Hendry relates her reports of fieldwork in a eastern city and divulges a desirable cross-section of jap lifestyles. She units out on a learn of politeness yet various unpredictable occasions together with a volcanic eruption, a suicide and her son's involvement with the relations of a poweful neighborhood gangster, start to modify the path of her examine. The ebook demonstrates the position of likelihood within the acquisition of anthropological wisdom and demonstrates how moments of perception should be embedded in daily task. An Anthropologist in Japan illuminates the schooling approach, spiritual ideals, politics, the relations and the local in glossy Japan.
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They were splendid affairs constructed in light wood, with a set of shelves at the back, and several roomy drawers which slid easily in and out. Each was equipped with two electric lights, a general reading one and a stronger spotlight, and each sported a jolly scene on an area which would subsequently be made into a notice-board. We also managed to find second-hand bicycles for each of us, including Jenny, so we made several excursions in crocodile formation to the surrounding attractions. It was still hot and sticky enough to make swimming a top priority, which we could do from the nearby beaches, but we also visited the kindergarten where we had lived before and reestablished contact with friends from our previous visit.
Perhaps because he was younger than the rest of us, there was little formal language used when addressing him; indeed, the tennis court seemed to bring out the most informal communication I had heard amongst this group of well-heeled women. The coach, too, adopted a fairly intimate style of address, using endings usually reserved for children, but attaching them to shortened surnames rather than given ones. Thus, Mrs Yamaguchi, usually referred to as Yamaguchisan, became Yama-chan, and Mrs Shimagami, more properly referred to as Shimagami-san, became Shima-chan.
The tennis class was interesting in another way, for the methods of learning were rather different for me, though quite consistent with techniques used in other classes in Japan. Despite being of Western origin, this sport was treated, at least by the pupils, a little like a martial art. The teacher would demonstrate various postures, appropriate for a particular shot, as indeed he might have done in America, and members of the class would concentrate great attention on getting every detail right, down to the position of the last finger.