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Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination鈥攁n organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan鈥攁nd focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range of cultural practices and orientations in terms of such relational concepts as uchi (鈥渋nside鈥�) and soto (鈥渙utside鈥�). Evolving from a shared theoretical focus, the essays show that in Japan the directional orientations inside and outside are specifically linked to another set of meanings, denoting 鈥渟elf鈥� and 鈥渟ociety.鈥�
After Donald L. Brenneis’s foreward, Jane M. Bachnick, Charles J. Quinn, Jr., Patricia J. Wetzel, Nancy R. Rosenberger, and Robert J. Sukle discuss 鈥淚ndexing Self and Social Context.鈥� 鈥淔ailure to Index: Boundary Disintegration and Social Breakdown鈥� is the topic of Dorinne K. Kondo, Matthews M. Hamabata, Michael S. Molasky, and Jane Bachnik. Finally, Charles Quinn explores 鈥淟anguage as a Form of Life.鈥�
Jane M. Bachnik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is presently pursuing research in Japan under a Senior Fellowship Grant from the Japan Foundation. Charles J. Quinn, Jr., is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University.

Originally published in 1994.

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