The anthropology of Europe as seen from Japan : considering contemporary forms and meanings of the social / edited by Akiko Mori.

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International Workshop "The Anthropology of Europe and its Extending Horizons" (2011 : Osaka, Japan) [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Osaka : National Museum of Ethnology, 2013.
Description
198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

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    Outgrowth of an international workshop, "The Anthropology of Europe and its Extending Horizons", held on January 29, 2011 at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Social change and the construction of community
    • Solidarity and individualism
    • Cultural manifestations and communal entities
    • Some remarks to open a dialogue between Europe and Japan
    • List of contributors.
    • Considering contemporary forms and meanings of the social : the anthropology of Europe / Akiko Mori
    • The extending horizons of rural Malta : 1960-2010 / Jeremy Boissevain
    • An anthropological study of charities : social activities and change in an English rural community / Yuko Shioji
    • Storytelling practices and the formation of collective experience : narratives of the conflict in Northern Ireland / Tomoko Sakai
    • Sociability and associations in rural French Jura : justice, property rights and moral economy / Atsushi Miura
    • The moralitiy of illegal practice : French farmers' conceptions of globalization / Osamu Nakagawa
    • Halfway down to solitude : ageing as the process of engagement/disengagement through social welfare in Finland / Erika Takahashi
    • Individuals as actors of social change : a case study of the revitalisation of El Camino de Fisterra-Muxía and Costa da Morte in Galicia, Spain / Hiroko Takenaka
    • Cultural heritage issues in Turkey and the category of 'Europe' : Roman mosaic collections discovered in Zeugman, southeast Turkey / Eisuke Tanaka
    • Customizing places : pilgrimage sites, holy statues, and the moment of 'connectedness' in contemporary Malta / Kuniko Fujiwara
    • An anthropologist of Japan from Europe looks at the anthropology of Europe from Japan / Joy Hendry
    • The inside of outside : from another native's point of view / Gergely Mohácsi.
    ISBN
    • 9784906962013 ((pbk.))
    • 4906962017 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2013395197
    OCLC
    841453750
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