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Author: Brigitte Steger ,
Tom Gill ,
David H. Slater
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd
Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.640kg
ISBN: 9781906165512
ISBN 10: 1906165513
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 24 February 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Help[s] bring the disaster zone to life for readers and communicate the extraordinary difficulties of large-scale calamity. (Peter Wynn Kirby, University of Oxford, from a review in 'Social Science Japan Journal') Well referenced in anthropology theory and history, 'Japan Copes with Calamity' goes to the core of practical and theoretical concerns in disaster study and substantially advances the field. (Susanna M. Hoffman, co-editor of 'Catastrophe and Culture') An important contribution both to Japanese studies and to the social science of disasters. It succeeds in rendering comprehensible an extremely complex sociocultural event. (Harumi Befu, Stanford University) These are first-rate ethnographies displaying not only great empathy but also deep contextual knowledge of contemporary Japanese society and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the resiliency of the human spirit in the wake of catastrophic events. (Ted Bestor, Harvard University)
""Help[s] bring the disaster zone to life for readers and communicate the extraordinary difficulties of large-scale calamity."" (Peter Wynn Kirby, University of Oxford, from a review in 'Social Science Japan Journal') ""Well referenced in anthropology theory and history, 'Japan Copes with Calamity' goes to the core of practical and theoretical concerns in disaster study and substantially advances the field."" (Susanna M. Hoffman, co-editor of 'Catastrophe and Culture') ""An important contribution both to Japanese studies and to the social science of disasters. It succeeds in rendering comprehensible an extremely complex sociocultural event."" (Harumi Befu, Stanford University) ""These are first-rate ethnographies displaying not only great empathy but also deep contextual knowledge of contemporary Japanese society and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the resiliency of the human spirit in the wake of catastrophic events."" (Ted Bestor, Harvard University)
'Help[s] bring the disaster zone to life for readers and communicate the extraordinary difficulties of large-scale calamity.' (Peter Wynn Kirby, University of Oxford, from a review in 'Social Science Japan Journal') 'Well referenced in anthropology theory and history, 'Japan Copes with Calamity' goes to the core of practical and theoretical concerns in disaster study and substantially advances the field.' (Susanna M. Hoffman, co-editor of 'Catastrophe and Culture') 'An important contribution both to Japanese studies and to the social science of disasters. It succeeds in rendering comprehensible an extremely complex sociocultural event.' (Harumi Befu, Stanford University) 'These are first-rate ethnographies displaying not only great empathy but also deep contextual knowledge of contemporary Japanese society and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the resiliency of the human spirit in the wake of catastrophic events.' (Ted Bestor, Harvard University)
"""Help[s] bring the disaster zone to life for readers and communicate the extraordinary difficulties of large-scale calamity."" (Peter Wynn Kirby, University of Oxford, from a review in 'Social Science Japan Journal') ""Well referenced in anthropology theory and history, 'Japan Copes with Calamity' goes to the core of practical and theoretical concerns in disaster study and substantially advances the field."" (Susanna M. Hoffman, co-editor of 'Catastrophe and Culture') ""An important contribution both to Japanese studies and to the social science of disasters. It succeeds in rendering comprehensible an extremely complex sociocultural event."" (Harumi Befu, Stanford University) ""These are first-rate ethnographies displaying not only great empathy but also deep contextual knowledge of contemporary Japanese society and culture. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the resiliency of the human spirit in the wake of catastrophic events."" (Ted Bestor, Harvard University)"
Author Information
Tom Gill is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. Brigitte Steger is Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Downing College. David H. Slater is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo and Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture there.
