Author: Smith, Robert John; & Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King); editors:
Title: Japanese Culture : Its Development and Characteristics
Description: New York, Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1962. orig. wrappers. 25x17cm, x, 193 pp. Series: Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, no. 34.. Textual tables.. Rubberstamp to flyleaf. Spine rubbed. VG. ¶ Contents: Origins: Nature of the Problem of Japanese Cultural Origins; Prehistoric Evidence for Japanese Cultural Origins; Light of Japanese Cultural Origins from Historical Archeology and Legend; The Japanese Language: Its Origin and Its Sources; Social Structure: Stability in Japanese Kinship Terminology: The Historical Evidence; Corporate Emphasis and Patterns of Descent in the Japanese Family; "Dozoku" and "Ie" in Japan:The Meaning of Family Genealogical Relationships; Changing Family Structure in Japan; Notes on Primogenitude in Postwar Japan; Village Organization: Common- Interest Associations in Rural Japan; Village Community ("Buraku") in Japan and Its Democratization; The Emergence of a Self-Conscious Entrepreneurial Class in Rural Japan; Social and Technological Chance in Rural Japan; Continuities and Discontinuities; Culture and Personality: Patterns of Emption in Modern Japan; "Amae": A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality Structure; Entrance Examinations and Emotional Disturbances in Japan's "New Middle Class"; Deviancy and Social Change: A Psychocultural Evaluation; Reflections on Dependency Phenomena as Seen in Nisei in the United States.

Keywords: Japanese Ethnography, Japan East Asia, Culture Cultural, Social Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, , ,