An Anthropology of Ba: Place and Performance Co-Emerging by Kazama, Kazuhiro

An Anthropology of Ba: Place and Performance Co-Emerging (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781925608045)

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An Anthropology of Ba: Place and Performance Co-Emerging by Kazama, Kazuhiro

An Anthropology of Ba: Place and Performance Co-Emerging

$35.95
An Anthropology of Ba: Place and Performance Co-Emerging by Kazama, Kazuhiro

An Anthropology of Ba: Place and Performance Co-Emerging

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as empty vessels where human activity occurs. Digging a bit deeper, we can distinguish spaces from places: places are spaces that have meanings attached--an empty room becomes a classroom or a bedroom depending on what people do in it. Focusing on the Japanese concept ba--usually translated as 'place'--these studies recognize that places imbued with social meaning influence human behavior. Ba takes into account the social context, the norms that dictate behavior, the mood of a place, and the individual's feelings about it. Conceptualized as ba, places limit and direct what we can do, and in the process, shape who we are. Drawing from a wide array of ethnographic studies, this collection illustrates various ways in which place and human agency co-emerge.

Author: Kazuhiro Kazama
ISBN-10: 1925608042
ISBN-13: 9781925608045
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2021
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
By Kazuhiro Kazama
By Kazuhiro Kazama
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Kazuhiro Kazama: Professor of Kyoto University. Kazama is an anthropologist who conducted long-term fieldwork on Tabiteuea Atoll in Kiribati and shorter research among the Gilbertese speakers in Fiji. His research interests include cross-cultural encounters, and an ethnographic approach to the study of historical memory and emotions in Oceania. Caitlin Coker is Associate Professor at Hokkaido University's School of Humanities and Human Science. Coker completed a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Kyoto University in 2017. Her research focuses on physical experience and performance, specifically butoh and pole dancing, as topics and practice-based methods to develop anthropological theory and thought. Gaku Kajimaru is Assistant Professor of Kyoto University. Kajimaru completed a PhD in Anthropology. His research interest is reciprocal singing of Buyi (China), Lao (Laos), and Japan, and the social aspect of Japanese folk song. He was awarded the 13th Tokugawa Munemasa Award and the 31st Tanabe Hisao Prize.

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