| Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands Contributor(s): Świtek, Beata (Author) |
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ISBN: 1800730160 ISBN-13: 9781800730168 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues |
| Dewey: 362.630 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6" W x 9" (0.73 lbs) 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |