The Japanese Family: Touch, Intimacy and Feeling (Japan Anthropology Workshop Series)

Synopsis

This Book Explores How The Relationship Between Child And Parent Develops In Japan, From The Earliest Point In A Child's Life, Through The Transition From Family To The Wider World, First To Playschools And Then Schools. It Relates The Position In Japan To Theoretical Writing, In Both Japan And The West, On Body, Mind, Intimacy And Feeling, And Compares The Position In Japan To Practices Elsewhere. Overall, The Book Makes A Significant Contribution To The Study Of And Theories On Body Practices, And To Debates On The Processes Of Socialisation In Japan-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Part I -- 1. Introduction -- Background To The Book -- Vignette One A Hugless Farewell -- Vignette Two A Nude Awakening -- Vignette Three An Undetectable Filled Space -- Vignette Four The Bakappuru That Was I Almost -- Vignette Five Families Farewelling Like Strangers -- Perceptual Differences -- Need For The Book -- Positioning The Study Of Touch And Intimacy -- Theoretical Underpinnings To Touch And Intimacy -- Connection Via Meeting -- Touching Bodies -- Alternative Discourses Of Embodiment In Japan -- An Ethnographic Approach -- Participant-observations -- Interviews -- Sampling -- Organisation Of The Book -- Part Ii -- 2. Parent -- Child Touch: (dis)locating The Body In Skinship -- The Japanese Family -- Parent-child Relationships -- Establishing Skinship: Mother -- Child Relationships -- Establishing Skinship: Father -- Child Relationships -- Summary -- 3. Exclusion And Inclusion In The Bedroom -- Vignette Six The Mizuno Family -- Vignette Seven The Fukushima Family -- Co-sleeping In Japan -- Exclusive Family Relations -- Exclusive-relations In Soine: On The Other Side Of The River -- Inclusive Family Relations -- Inclusive Relations In Soine: The River That Flows Through The Family -- Summary -- Part Iii -- 4. Moving Into The Big, Wide World -- Pre-schooling In Japan -- The Daycare Context: Kikyo Hoikuen -- Kikyo Hoikuen: The Family Outside The Home -- Hiyoko Gumi (young Chicks Class) -- Vignette Eight Finding Security Through Onbu -- Sumire Gumi (violets Class) -- Sakura Gumi (cherry Blossoms Class) -- Kikyo Gumi (chinese Bellflower Class) -- Vignette Nine Can We Sleep Together? -- Summary -- 5. Arriving To A Conceptual Understanding Of Belonging Through The Felt Meanings Of Touch -- Transitional Touch -- Securing The Space Of Intimacy In The Japanese Family: Touching At Depth -- Feeling Through Sight -- The Home Is Where The Heart Is -- Being-together -- Tone And Presence Through Absence -- Filled Space: Ma And Air -- Summary -- 6. How Touch Feels After Five -- Stages Of Development -- Age -- Beginning School -- The Birth Of A New Sibling -- Public Discourses: Why Touch Stops -- Public/private Dichotomies -- It's Because We're Japanese! -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Vignette Ten: A Touching Return -- The Japanese Culture Of Embodiment -- Touching At Depth: Developing The Social Theory Of The Body -- Recommendations For Further Research -- Living Skinship. Diana Adis Tahhan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.