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This study is an anthropological examination of an ethnic Japanese diaspora community living in an agricultural commune in Brazil. It analyzes the group’s search for identity, its place in the ethnic politics of Brazil, and its connections to transnational economic networks.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Globalization and Localization: Theorizing Identity in Kubo
Chapter 2: Dancing Farmers: Everyday Life in Kubo
Chapter 3: Why Be Children of Nature?: The Development of the Nohon-shugi Ideology and History of the Kubo Commune
Chapter 4: "Is Our Women's Language 'Abrupt' or 'Rough?'": Social Roles and Gendered Spheres
Chapter 5: "After all, she is not even an o-jo-san (lady from the city), but a gaijin (foreigner)!": Identities and Diaspora
Chapter 6: "We are fine with someone marrying a non-Japanese as long as they live outside the farm": Cultural Identity and Ethnic Capital
Chapter 7: Beyond Kubo

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nobuko Adachi is assistant professor of anthropology at Illinois State University.

Zusammenfassung

This study is an anthropological examination of an ethnic Japanese diaspora community living in an agricultural commune in Brazil. It analyzes the group’s search for identity, its place in the ethnic politics of Brazil, and its connections to transnational economic networks.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nobuko Adachi, Adachi Nobuko
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498544849
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4484-9
• Serien: AsiaWorld; AsiaWorld (Hardcover); AsiaWorld
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology