Sawa Kurotani

Home Away from Home

Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography about "Japan outside of Japan"--specifically, how Japanese families on corporate reassignment in the United States recreate their homeland within domestic spaces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336303
• ISBN-10: 0822336308
• Artikelnr.: 22315906

Autorenporträt

Sawa Kurotani is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. Domesticating the Global 1
2. Managing Transnational Work 41
3. Homemaking Away from Home 71
4. Playing Her Part 113
5. On Vacation 152
6. Home Again 195
Notes 221
References 225
Index 235