Book
Village Japan
University of Chicago Press • Chicago • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King), Hall, John Whitney, Ward, Robert Edward.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book contains a well-rounded ethnographic study of the rice-growing community of Niiike. The study is based on field work conducted in the 1950s by an interdisciplinary team of scholars from the University of Michigan. While Niiike is the focus of the study, the authors make frequent reference to neighboring communities and Japan in general in order to discuss the ways Niiike may be said to be a 'typical' rice-growing community and in order to show how events in Japan in general have affected the local community.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Territorial organization
- Geography
- Settlement patterns
- Ethos
- Tillage
- Land use
- Marriage
- Religious denominations
- Organized ceremonial
- Political machines
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Okayama
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Historian
- Political Scientist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1979: John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950-1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3000 BC–AD 1957
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Community of Niiike, Honshu Island, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Richard K. Beardsley, John W. Hall [and] Robert E. Ward.
- 1) Introduction; 2) Geographical setting; 3) Niiie's historical setting; 4) Niiike's people: physique and temperment; 5) Community life: material goods and equiptment; 6) Land and water; 7) Niiike at work; 8) Income and expenditure; 9) The household; 10) Community and kinship associations; 11) The life cycle; 12) The community and local government; 13) The community and political process; 14) Religious institutions and concepts; and, 15) Conclusions.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 58013802
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Japan--Okayama Prefecture