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Gift-Giving in Japan
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7268559Gift-Giving in Japanhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/gift-giving-in-japan-9780804766999/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6818759/image.jpg?v=638743741504170000444542MXNStanford University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan.</p><p><em>Gift-Giving in Japan</em> is based on eighteen months fieldwork in the Tokyo metropolitan area, as well as short-term research in other parts of Japan. The core of the study is the experience of family representatives of different ages, classes, genders, occupations, neighborhoods, and religions. The author also interviewed experts, including the author of gift-giving etiquette books, Buddhist and Shinto priests, department store and funeral home employees, and workers at Tokyos Tsukiji fish market. She participated in neighborhood festivals, election rallies, house-building rites, and other ceremonies of which gift-giving was an integral part.</p><p>Recent anthropological interest in drawing a strong contrast between commodities and gifts both reflects and reinforces the conception of the gift as part of the giver and the related distinction between the realm of the gift and the realm of the marketplace. The author argues that Japanese practices of giving and receiving challenge assumptions related to this idea of the gift.</p>...6908299Gift-Giving in Japan444542https://www.gandhi.com.mx/gift-giving-in-japan-9780804766999/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6818759/image.jpg?v=638743741504170000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20039780804766999_W3siaWQiOiI2NTI5NzYzYi00MmM0LTQ3ZjYtYjY5Ny04M2JiYmRjZjg2YjgiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjU0MiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjk4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjQ0NCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780804766999_<p>Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan.</p><p><em>Gift-Giving in Japan</em> is based on eighteen months fieldwork in the Tokyo metropolitan area, as well as short-term research in other parts of Japan. The core of the study is the experience of family representatives of different ages, classes, genders, occupations, neighborhoods, and religions. The author also interviewed experts, including the author of gift-giving etiquette books, Buddhist and Shinto priests, department store and funeral home employees, and workers at Tokyos Tsukiji fish market. She participated in neighborhood festivals, election rallies, house-building rites, and other ceremonies of which gift-giving was an integral part.</p><p>Recent anthropological interest in drawing a strong contrast between commodities and gifts both reflects and reinforces the conception of the gift as part of the giver and the related distinction between the realm of the gift and the realm of the marketplace. The author argues that Japanese practices of giving and receiving challenge assumptions related to this idea of the gift.</p>...9780804766999_Stanford University Presslibro_electonico_9780804766999_9780804766999Katherine RuppInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram40-epub-9134df11-75f5-42b8-bef0-3ce5db16ec97.epub2003-06-10T00:00:00+00:00Stanford University Press