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Shinohata : A Portrait of a Japanese Village by R. P. Dore (1994, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520086287

ISBN-139780520086289

eBay Product ID (ePID)1081977

Product Key Features

Number of Pages332 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameShinohata : a Portrait of a Japanese Village

Publication Year1994

SubjectAsia / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociology / Marriage & Family, Sociology / Rural

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorR. P. Dore

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN93-041319

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface 1. Town and Country 2. Time Past 3· Farmers of the Emperor 4· Better Off 5· Work 6. Modern Farming 7. The Silken Caterpillar 8. The Search for the Alchemist's Secret 9· Couples 10. Wives, Husbands and Mothers 11. Growing-Up 12. Brothers' Keepers 13. Pleasures Shared and Pleasures Solitary 14. In the Service of Community, Nation- and Self 15. Nature and the Numinous 16. Harmony and its Tensions: The Day the Fire Brigade Went Fishing 17. Neighbours and Equals 18. Epilogue Afterword: 1993 Index

SynopsisRonald Dore offers the reader insight into the changing rural life of Japan in this fascinating study of a village some 100 miles from Tokyo where he lived first in 1955 and again in the early 1970s. A new Afterword reports on the acceleration of change to a once self-sufficient community most of whose young men now commute to city jobs instead of working the land. Dore comments on the effects of the 1993 election--Shinohata in a non-LDP-governed Japan., Ronald Dore offers the reader insight into the changing rural life of Japan in this fascinating study of a village some 100 miles from Tokyo where he lived first in 1955 and again in the early 1970s. A new Afterword reports on the acceleration of change to a once self-sufficient community most of whose young men now commute to city jobs instead of working the land. Dore comments on the effects of the 1993 election-Shinohata in a non-LDP-governed Japan.

LC Classification NumberHN723.5.D67 1978