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EDITED by Rebecca Empson
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
How do prophets and their prophecies influence the processes of decision-making, concepts of authority and ideas about causality and time? How can we talk about prophets and prophecy in the Mongolian ... |
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Volume 1: Understanding Amae: The Japanese Concept of Need-love
Takeo Doi
KEY FEATURE(S) ‘I am sure that Dr Doi’s amae theory would have wider repercussions outside his specialized field of psychiatry, if applied to other disciplines as well. Is not Japan’s love-hate relationship with the West worth much closer attention from this psychological point of view?’
SUKEHIRO HIRAKAWA
This volume brings together twenty-six of Prof. Doi’s principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty year... |
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Tsu Yun Hui (Ed.)
UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the first interdisciplinary study in English to consider social memory in Japan across a wide range of issues and phenomena, including music and song, artefacts and tools, oral testimonies and written documents, stones and performances, rivers and earthquakes, ritual and ceremonies as well as art and artists.
Unlike previous studies which have focused on isolated issues, especially Second World War events, this collection examines in depth a variety of memorialization subjects, provides valuable perspectiv... |
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David Prendergast
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
KEY FEATURE(S) This insightful account of the
treatment and provision for an ageing population in
South Korea is based on intensive fieldwork in the
county of Puan and adds considerably to the
literature on what is happening in the fusion
between older Korean culture and modern Western
individualism.
The structure of the book revolves around an analysis of the roles of the individual and family in the ongoing development of a capitalist Asian society at the end of the twentieth century. The study ... |
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Volume 1: Understanding Amae
This series will highlight important Japanese writers, with much of the content being published in English for the first time. The series starts with Professor Takei Doi's book which brings together ... |
