Kato The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan

Bodies Re-Presenting the Past
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-134-37236-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Anthropology of Asia

The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity while being, in turn, transformed by it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kato, Etsuko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Tables, Figures and Plates

A note on Local Terms and Transcriptions

Introduction

Part I: The Tea Ceremony as Bodily Discipline

1. The Tea Ceremony as Bodily Discipline

2. Bodily Discipline and Myths

Part II: Two Postwar Phenomena in the Tea Ceremony

3. The Birth of Sôgô-bunka Discourse and Feminization of the Tea Ceremony

Part III: Women's Tea Ceremony Today

4. Shachû and Women's Tea Ceremony Networks

5. The Past Re-Presented

6. The Meaning of the Tea Ceremony in Women's Lives

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Etsuko Kato is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the International Christian University, Tokyo.