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The women of Suye Mura
- Title
- The women of Suye Mura / Robert J. Smith & Ella Lury Wiswell.
- Author
- Smith, Robert J. (Robert John), 1927-2016.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wiswell, Ella Lury.
- Description
- xxxvii, 293 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 287-288.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0226763447
- 9780226763446
- 0226763455
- 9780226763453
- LCCN
- 82002708
- OCLC
- ocm08282191
- 8282191
- SCSB-43814
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library