Argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. This book shows how young people in Japan are thinking about their bodies and identities, their social relationships, and their employment and parenting, in generationally contextual ways. Editor(s): Matthews, Gordon; White, Bruce. Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 black & white tables, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBTB; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344. . 2006. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Japan's Changing Generations: Are Young People Creating a New Society? (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415384915
ISBN 13: 9780415384919
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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This book argues that the generation gap in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order; rather it signifies something much more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan.

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Gordon Mathews is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has written What Makes Life Worth Living? How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (1996), and Global Culture/Individual Identity: Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket (2000) and edited Consuming Hong Kong (2001).
Bruce White is Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at Doshisha University,
Kyoto, Japan.

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