Nice, pleasant read, informative and simple. An example of anthropology that is dépassé, I doubt that anyone today would write a book about Japanese culture as a monolithic entity. Benedict could not conduct fieldwork in […]
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Straightjacket Society: An Insider’s Irreverent View of Bureaucratic Japan by Masao Miyamoto (1994)
Masao Miyamoto is a psychiatrist who grew up in Japan and was trained in the US. He returned to Japan after 11 years of living, teaching, and working in America to enter the Japanese bureaucracy, […]