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The household in the status system of Japanese villagesBook 1951 • Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King)
Okayama • Asia > East Asia
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 villager...Village JapanBook 1972 • Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King) et al.
Okayama • Asia > East Asia
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 ...