Roger Goodman (ed.)

Family and Social Policy in Japan

Anthropological Approaches
Herausgeber: Befu, Harumi; Ueno, Chizuko; Seifert, Wolfgang

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Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth study of the formation of social policy in a non-western society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521016353
• ISBN-10: 0521016355
• Artikelnr.: 22076321

Autorenporträt

Roger Goodman is lecturer in the social anthropology of Japan at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. His publications include Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan (2000) and The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: anthropology, policy and the study of Japan Roger Goodman;
2. Toward a cultural biography of civil society in Japan Victoria Lynn
Bestor; 3. Pinning hopes on angels: reflections from an aging Japan's urban
landscape Glenda Roberts; 4. Reproducing identity: maternal and child
health care for foreigners in Japan Setsuko Lee and Carolyn Stevens; 5.
State, standardization and 'normal' children: an anthropological study of a
preschool Eyal Ben-Ari; 6. Child abuse in Japan: 'discovery' and the
development of policy Roger Goodman; 7. Touching of the hearts: an overview
of programs to promote interaction between the generations in Japan Leng
Leng Thang; 8. Death policies in Japan: the state, the family and the
individual Yohko Tsuji; 9. Embodiment, citizenship and social policy in
contemporary Japan Vera Mackie.