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Availability:In StockContributor:Anne AllisonPublish date:2013-11-22Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822355625ISBN-10:822355620UPC:9780822355625Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, AsiaBook Topic:Cultural & Social, JapanSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCD8KMG033
In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but also in the figurative sense of not belonging. Until the collapse of Japan's economic bubble in 1991, lifelong employment and a secure income were within reach of most Japanese men, enabling them to maintain their families in a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. Now, as fewer and fewer people are able to find full-time work, hope turns to hopelessness and security gives way to a pervasive unease. Yet some Japanese are getting by, partly by reconceiving notions of home, family, and togetherness.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822355625ISBN-10:822355620UPC:9780822355625Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, AsiaBook Topic:Cultural & Social, JapanSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCD8KMG033

Anne Allison is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination; Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan; and Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club and a coeditor of the journal Cultural Anthropology.


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