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Japan's Invisible Race Caste in Culture and Personality.

Modern Japanese share a myth to the effect that they harbor in their midst an inferior race less ""human"" than the stock that fathered their nation as a whole. These pariahs, numbering more than two million, are segregated by caste just as firmly as the Negro is in the United St...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wagatsuma, Hiroshi
Otros Autores: De Vos, George
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2021]
Colección:Publications of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One Caste in Japan: A Descriptive Cultural Analysis
  • SECTION I. Historical Perspective
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER I. A History of the Outcaste: Untouchability in Japan
  • SECTION II. Attempts at Political and Social Solutions to the Outcaste Problem
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 2. Emancipation: Growth and Transformation of a Political Movement
  • CHAPTER 3. Postwar Political Militarice
  • CHAPTER 4. Non-Political Approaches: The Influences of Religion and Education
  • SECTION III. Ethnographic Studies of the Japanese Outcastes
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 5. The Ecology of Special Buraku
  • CHAPTER 6. A Traditional Urban Outcaste Community
  • CHAPTER 7. The Social Persistence of Outcaste Groups
  • CHAPTER 8. Buraku Relations and Attitudes in a Progressive Farming Community
  • CHAPTER 9. Little-Known Minority Groups of Japan
  • CHAPTER 10. Japan's Outcastes in the United States
  • SECTION IV. Psychological Perspectives
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 11. Socialization, Self-Perception, and Burakumin Status
  • CHAPTER 12. Group Solidarity and Individual Mobility
  • CHAPTER 13. Minority Status and Attitudes Toward Authority
  • SECTION V. Caste in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Organizational Components
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 14. Structure and Function of Caste Systems
  • CHAPTER 15. Concomitants of Caste Organization
  • SECTION VI. Motivational Components of Caste
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 16. Essential Elements of Caste: Psychological Determinants in Structural Theory
  • CHAPTER 17. Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology of Caste Behavior
  • Bibliography
  • Index