The Japanese Family

Touch, Intimacy and Feeling
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-07943-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 292 g

Reihe: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

This book explores how the relationship between child and parent develops in Japan, from the earliest point in a child’s life, through the transition from family to the wider world, first to playschools and then schools. It shows how touch and physical contact are important for engendering intimacy and feeling, and how intimacy and feeling continue even when physical contact lessens. It relates the position in Japan to theoretical writing, in both Japan and the West, on body, mind, intimacy and feeling, and compares the position in Japan to practices elsewhere. Overall, the book makes a significant contribution to the study of and theories on body practices, and to debates on the processes of socialisation in Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tahhan, Diana Adis

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Eyal Ben-Ari Part 1 1. Introduction Part 2 2. Parent-child Touch: (Dis)Locating the Body in Skinship 3. Exclusion and Inclusion in the Bedroom Part 3 4. Moving into the Big, Wide World 5. Arriving to a Conceptual Understanding of Belonging Through the Felt Meanings of Touch 6. How Touch Feels after Five 7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Adis Tahhan is a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia.