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Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony: The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

Autor Kaeko Chiba
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 ian 2013
This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chadō) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chadō system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s idea of cultural capital, it explores the various meanings of chadō for Akita women and argues that chadō has a cultural, economic, social and symbolic value and is used as a tool to improve gender and class equality. Chadō practitioners focus on tea procedure and related aspects of chadō such as architecture, flower arranging, gardening and pottery. Initially, only men were admitted to chadō; women were admitted in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and now represent the majority of practitioners. The author - a chadō practitioner and descendant of chadō teachers - provides a thorough, honest account of Akita women based on extensive participant observation and interviews. Where most literature on Japan focuses on metropolitan centres such as Kitakyushu and Tokyo, this book is original in both its subject and scope. Also, as economic differences between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas have become more pronounced, it is timely to explore the specific class and gender issues affecting non-metropolitan women.  This book contributes not only to the ethnographic literature on chadō and non-metropolitan women in Japan, but also to the debates on research methodology and the theoretical discussion of class.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415837927
ISBN-10: 0415837928
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 18 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white tables, 17 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction  2. Identity work  3 Time, space and the experience of chadō  4. Bourdieu’s theory of capital and discourses on class  5. Gender  6. Class  7. Raison d’être

Descriere

This book examines the complex relationship between gender and class among Japanese tea ceremony (chadō) practitioners in Japan. It argues that chadō has a cultural, economic, social and symbolic value and is used as a tool to improve gender and class equality.