| Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands Contributor(s): Świtek, Beata (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785332694 ISBN-13: 9781785332692 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues |
| Dewey: 362.630 |
| LCCN: 2016025291 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 242 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Japanese - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers' experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national "other" in Japan. |
Contributor Bio(s): Świtek Beata: - Beata Świtek, PhD, University College London, is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. |