Home Away from Home – Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States
Autor Sawa Kurotanien Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 dec 2005
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822336228
ISBN-10: 0822336227
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 188 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822336227
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 188 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Recenzii
Sawa Kurotanis absorbing study offers new ethnographic insight into a common manifestation of globalizationthe social bubbles created by corporate, government, and military families on foreign assignments. She sensitively analyzes how Japanese company wives in the U.S. work hard to maintain Japanese domesticity and how these efforts inadvertently but powerfully forge a new self-awareness. Home Away from Home teaches us a valuable lesson about how the local is constituted within the global.William W. Kelly, editor of Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary JapanSawa Kurotani reveals the centrality of womens domesticity to transnational mobility among Japanese families and families everywhere. She has a fine and affectionate ethnographic eye.Karen Kelsky, author of Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams
Notă biografică
Sawa Kurotani is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.
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"Sawa Kurotani reveals the centrality of women's domesticity to transnational mobility among Japanese families and families everywhere. She has a fine and affectionate ethnographic eye."--Karen Kelsky, author of "Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams"
Cuprins
Acknowledgments ix
1. Domesticating the Global 1
2. Managing Transnational Work 41
3. Homemaking Away from Home 71
4. Playing Her Part 113
5. On Vacation 152
6. Home Again 195
Notes 221
References 225
Index 235
1. Domesticating the Global 1
2. Managing Transnational Work 41
3. Homemaking Away from Home 71
4. Playing Her Part 113
5. On Vacation 152
6. Home Again 195
Notes 221
References 225
Index 235
Descriere
An ethnography about 'Japan outside of Japan' - specifically, how Japanese families on corporate re-assignment in the United States recreate their homeland within domestic spaces