Life in Riverfront: A Middle-Wester Town Seen Through Japanese Eyes: A Middle Western Town Seen through Japanese Eyes (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Fujita, Mariko Mariko Fujita,

ISBN 10: 0155064215 / ISBN 13: 9780155064218

Edité par Wadsworth Publishing, 2000

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Synopsis :

LIFE IN RIVERFRONT is a unique case study that offers a fresh approach to ethnography because it looks at American culture as seen through the eyes of Japanese anthropologists. Every cultural anthropology student is introduced to papers on the �Nacirema,� a very foreign culture with many daily rituals and a fanaticism for cleanliness, especially as they prepare themselves for work in the morning. In truth, the �nacirema� is American (spelled backwards), and the lessons learned from seeing one�s own culture through the eyes of a �stranger� illuminate the notion of ethnocentrism in a powerful way. While a major task of anthropology is to make the strange familiar and the exotic or enigmatic understandable, another task is to make the familiar strange so that one can see one�s own culture in a new light. This case study accomplishes this and more.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Life in Riverfront: A Middle-Wester Town ...
Éditeur : Wadsworth Publishing
Date d'édition : 2000
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good