Reluctant Intimacies
Beata Świtek
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
social sciences, caregiver, indonesian workers, eldercare, sociology, anthropology, family, engaging, gerontology, elder care, mass media, indonesian eldercare, ethnographic research, ethnography, biographical, societal transformation, generational, demography, dying, illness, intimacy, social science, anthropological studies, asia, working class, nursing homes, japanese colleagues, anthropological scholarship, demographic change, disease health issues, career, immigration and immigrants, realistic, page turner, japan