Author : Diana Adis Tahhan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317808347
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Book Synopsis The Japanese Family by : Diana Adis Tahhan
Download or read book The Japanese Family written by Diana Adis Tahhan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 shows how touch and physical contact are important for engendering intimacy and feeling, and how intimacy and feeling continue even when physical contact lessens. 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.