Intimate Encounters
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Author_Lieba Faier
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cultural encounters
cultural production
cultural studies
diaspora
emigration and immigration
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ethnography
figures of desire
filipina brides
filipina women
filipino culture
gender studies
geography
globalization
home
hostess bars
interpersonal exchanges
japan
kinship
kiso valley
migration
national subjectivity
non japanese population
prostitutes
prostitutions
rural japan
the philippines
traditional japanese brides
united states of america
zone of encounters
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- ISBN 9780520252158
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Aug 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars - where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners - came to be identified by the local residents as 'ideal, traditional Japanese brides'. "Intimate Encounters", an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a 'zone of encounters', showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. "Intimate Encounters" provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.
Lieba Faier is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.
