Book
The household in the status system of Japanese villages
University of Michigan Press • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1951 • Pages: 62-73
By: Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a brief discussion on Japanese social structure and values. Field data from Niiike in Okayama Prefecture and Tsutsu on Tsushima Island are presented and compared in order to illustrate the author's contention that '...Japanese villagers emphasize the household over the individual, the consanguine over the conjugal family, and ascribed status over achieved status' (p. 70). The second half of the article is of a more speculative nature and includes a critique of Ruth Benedict's interpretation of Japanese values as well as a discussion of the importance of gimu and giri (obligation, duty) in the Japanese value system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Status, role, and prestige
- Classes
- Household
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Reviews and critiques
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Niiike, Okayama Prefecture and Tsutsu, Tsushima shi, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard K. Beardsley
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Japan--Okayama Prefecture