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Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands, Paperback / softback Book

Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands Paperback / softback

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Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers.

Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation.

Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers’ experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national “other” in Japan.

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:242 pages
  • Publisher:Berghahn Books
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  • ISBN:9781800730168
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  • Out of stock

  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:242 pages
  • Publisher:Berghahn Books
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9781800730168