The Women of Suye Mura
- ISBN-10
- 0226763447
- ISBN-13
- 9780226763446
- Category
- Sue-mura (Kumamoto-ken, Japan)
- Pages
- 293
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Authors
- Robert John Smith, Ella Lury Wiswell
Description
Based on Ella Wiswell's extensive field notes from the mid-1930s--when she and her late husband John Embree undertook a joint research project in rural Japan--this volume forms a companion to Embree's now-standard Suye Mura: A Japanese ...
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