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Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

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Aging & Elder CarePublic HealthAnthropology

ISBN10: 1785332694
ISBN13: 9781785332692
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Sep 1 2016
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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