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Wrapping culture : politeness, presentation, and power in Japan and other societies
- Title
- Wrapping culture : politeness, presentation, and power in Japan and other societies / Joy Hendry.
- Author
- Hendry, Joy.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | DS830 .H45 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 200 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Wrapping Culture is concerned with problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations are often influenced by cultural factors which may blind us to an appreciation of underlying intent. She then extends this approach to the study of polite language as the wrapping of thoughts and intentions, garments as body wrappings, constructions and gardens as wrapping of space, and even to the ways in which people may be wrapped in seating arrangements, or meetings and drinking customs may be constrained by temporal versions of wrapping. Throughout the book, Dr Hendry considers ways in which groups of people use such symbolic forms to impress and manipulate one another, and points out a Western tendency to underestimate such non-verbal communication, or to reject it as mere decoration. The ideas she presents should be valid in any inter-cultural encounter and demonstrate that Japanese culture, so often thought of as a special case, can supply a model through which we can formulate general theories about human behaviour.
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms
- Uniform Title
- Oxford studies in the anthropology of cultural forms.
- Subject
- National characteristics, Japanese
- Intercultural communication > Japan
- Japanese
- Japanese
- Civilization
- Intercultural communication
- National characteristics, Japanese
- Internationaler Vergleich
- Kulturkontakt
- Nationalcharakter
- Verpackung
- Etiquette
- Communicatie
- Nationale kenmerken
- Savoir-vivre > Japon
- Communication interculturelle > Japon
- Caractère national japonais
- Japan > Civilization
- Japan
- Japon > Moeurs et coutumes
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 1. The Purpose and Meaning of Wrapping -- 2. The Language and Value of Japanese Wrapping -- 3. Japanese Language as Wrapping -- 4. Wrapping of the Body -- 5. The Wrapping of Space -- 6. Social Wrapping, or People Wrapping People -- 7. Temporal Wrapping -- and Unwrapping -- 8. Politeness, Packaging, and Power -- Wrapping it up: The Symbolic Power of Wrapping.
- ISBN
- 0198273894
- 9780198273899
- 0198280289
- 9780198280286
- LCCN
- 92023254
- OCLC
- ocm26256703
- 26256703
- SCSB-14478869
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library