Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village The Making and Becoming of Person and Place

Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kuzaki-cho) at a particular moment in time (the 1980s), D.P. Martinez addresses a variety of issues currently at the fore in the anthropology of Japan: the construction of identity, both for a place and its people; the importance of ritual in a country that describes itself as nonreligious; and the relationship between men and women in a society where gender divisions are still very much in place.Martinez, D. P. is the author of 'Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village The Making and Becoming of Person and Place' with ISBN 9780824826703 and ISBN 0824826701.