The women of Suye Mura

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The women of Suye Mura / Robert J. Smith & Ella Lury Wiswell.

Smith, Robert J. (Robert John), 1927-2016 (Author). Wiswell, Ella Lury. (Added Author).

Summary:

Based on Ella Wiswell's extensive field notes from the mid-1930s--when she and her late husband John Embree undertook a joint research project in rural Japan--this volume forms a companion to Embree's now-standard Suye Mura: A Japanese Village. Its focus on the women of the village affords a unique look at their daily lives and a detailed portrait of their world-views and social understandings at a time when the orthodoxies of the contemporary state were not yet completely accepted.

Record details

ISBN: 0226763447
ISBN: 9780226763446
ISBN: 0226763455
ISBN: 9780226763453
Physical Description: xxxvii, 293 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Prologue: Suye Mura in retrospect / by Ella Lury Wiswell -- The nature of women and their world -- Women's formal associations -- Interpersonal relations -- Sex: public and private -- The facts of life -- Young women and men: growing up -- Marriage, divorce, and adoptions -- Wives and husbands -- Mothers and fathers -- Little girls and boys -- The handicapped, misfits, wanderers, and witches.
Action Note:: Legacy 2017