Preface for Instructors v A Note on Names and Pronunciation xix Part One Thinking and Writing About Culture Thinking About Culture 3(34) Observing: Insiders and Outsiders 3(3) A Teacher Learns 4(2) Cathy N. Davidson Representing---and Misrepresenting---Others 6(2) Speaking Culture 8(1) Working with Concepts of Culture 9(1) Not Getting Lost in the Translation 10(1) Four Suggestions for Thinking About Culture 11(26) Reports of the Earliest Western Visitors to Japan 12(4) Alessandro Valignano Cosme de Torres Francesco Carletti The Japanese Are Different from You and Me 16(13) James Fallows Body Ritual Among the Nacirema 29(8) Horace Miner Thinking About Texts 37(38) Thinking Big: Eating Whales 37(2) Time, Let Them Eat Beef 38(1) Thinking Small: Summarizing 39(2) Thinking Responsively: Keeping a Journal 41(3) Thinking Critically: Analyzing 44(3) Analyzing Cultural Differences: Looking at Two Essays 47(13) They Eat Whales, Dont They? 47(3) Andrew Pollock Whale Meat 50(10) John Elder Comparing and Contrasting 60(15) Introduction to A Taste of Japan 63(12) Donald Richie Part Two Readings for Cultural Comparison Growing Up 75(50) The Child Learns 78(11) Ruth Benedict Dealing with a Difficult Child 89(6) Joseph Tobin Japanese Education: How Do They Do It? 95(14) Merry I. White The Examination Hell 109(10) Ikuo Amano Talkin bout My Generation 119(6) Shinobu Yoshioka Courtship, Love, and Marriage 125(32) Love in the Tenth Century 129(4) Sei Shonagon The Japanese Kiss 133(3) Donald Richie Young Japanese Confront Social Taboos 136(3) Takashi Watanabe Computerized Matchmaking 139(6) T. K. Ito Virginia Murray R. U. Loveless The Lordly Marriage Declaration 145(2) Masashi Sada In and Out of the Closet 147(10) Neil Miller Womens Roles 157(50) Liberation Begins in the Kitchen 161(10) Yoko Kirishima The New Cold War with Japan: How Are Women Paying for It? 171(9) Kazuko Watanabe The Quiet Revoluation: Japanese Women Today 180(15) Sumiko Iwao Marriage? Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 195(5) Karl Taro Greenfeld Abortions Place in Society: The Case of Japan 200(7) William R. LaFleur Growing Older 207(36) Old Age and Retirement 210(5) David W. Plath The Old Woman in the Bath 215(4) Cathy N. Davidson Alienation and Reconnecition in a Home for the Elderly 219(15) Diana Bethel A Family Supper 234(9) Kazuo Ishiguro The Meaning and Practice of Work 243(41) Work as a Form of Beauty 246(12) Ian Buruma Attitudes Toward Work 258(5) Akio Morita A Day in the Factory 263(11) Jeannie Lo Whos Better Off? 274(10) Bill Powell Hideko Takayama John McCormick Leisure and Entertainment 284(45) Japan at Play 288(12) Gayle Hanson A Whole Different Ball Game 300(7) Michael Shapiro In the Land of Mickey-San 307(3) Pico Iyer A Guide to Water Worlds 310(4) June Kinoshita Nicholas Palevsky The Hostess Club: A Type of Routine 314(10) Anne Allison Whats Hot on Japanese TV 324(5) Mark Schilling The Cultural Meanings of Consumption 329(35) Gift Giving 333(1) Harumi Befu Japans Department Stores: Selling Internationalization 334(11) Millie R. Creighton Christmas in Japan 345(5) Anne Pepper The Japanification of American Fast Food 350(4) Elizabeth Andoh Tokyos Tips for New York 354(3) David E. Sanger Why Japan Is in Love with Vending Machines 357(3) James Sterngold Walkman, Manga, and Society 360(4) Donald Richie Delinquency, Crime, and Punishment 364(32) Over the Edge: Delinquency and Other Teen Social Pathologies 367(6) Merry I. White Common Crime, Common Criminals 373(6) Edwin M. Reingold Yakuza and the Police 379(7) Walter L. Ames A Nation Without Guns 386(7) Mark Schreiber A Gun Tragedy Again 393(3) Mainichi Daily News Notions of Nation 396(43) Hierarchy in Japanese Society 400(9) Chie Nakane Westler Fails to Keep Hold on Honorable Past 409(3) Clyde Haberman On Being a Conceptual Anomaly 412(7) Dorinne K. Kondo Ethnic Ainu Seek Official Recognition 419(9) William Wetherall They Call Japan Home but Are Hardly at Home 428(3) Susan Chira The Other Japan 431(8) James Fallows Appendix Doing Research 439(34) Using Sources 439(1) Conducting Field Research 440(3) Audience and Purpose 443(1) Finding Material in the Library 444(1) Student Research: An Example 445(1) Narrowing the Subject to a Topic, Developing a Thesis, and Taking Notes 445(2) Quoting from Sources 447(2) A Sample Essay: Illness and Taboos in Japan: The Case of AIDS 449(5) Doris Berger Documentation (MLA Format) 454(13) A Note on Plagiarism 467(6) Index of Authors and Titles 473
