Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty

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Satsuki Kawano is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Guelph, Canada. Glenda S. Roberts is professor and director of international studies at Waseda University, Japan. Susan Orpett Long is professor of anthropology at John Carroll University, USA.

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This book is designed as an undergraduate course reader offering up-to-date ethnographic research on contemporary Japan to enrich students learning. Based on data collected during the 2000s by eleven well know anthropologists of Japan, the collection explores current social phenomena such as wage work, small businesses, lifestyle choices, food, family and marital relations, childbearing, and aging.