Haruko's World By Bernstein Summary
Who is the Author?
Haruko’s World is an ethnography about the rural Japanese woman in 1970s. The author of Haruko’s World is Gail Lee Bernstein. Bernstein works at a University in San Diego as a professor. Is is an American anthropologist and studies Japanese culture. Haruko's World is her second ethnography trip to Japan.
Bernstein I feel is a very organized person. She separates her work, home affairs, and emotions . Living with Haruko she is dismayed at how with every action Haruko ruins this separation and drags personal and work into one big pile. Bernstein’ s lack of interest in what she looks like summary dismays Haruko, but Bernstein cares deeply for the functionality of outfits.
To write this paper Bernstein wanted to go behind scenes and casually stroll in and let them open up to her. But for the first …show more content…
Haruko doses majority of the work; she works dawn to dusk. When she was pregnant she worked until she gave birth and as soon as possible she was out working again; allowing her mother-in-law to raise her children. She sometimes picks up the extra work when her husband, Sho-ichi, devotes himself to the community. Haruko occasionally works at a second job for a short time. Many women make clothing for the family. This helps with keeping spending low. The community is a rural farming community. Mostly rice and cash crops are grown. It has seasons where it requires all hands on deck; these harvesting seasons are huge to the economy. Though this brings in huge amounts of money; the family has to split the rest of the year from this one transaction period. Families often need a second job or a second income at some point in the year. Trades are often done; an example is when Haruko was very ill she traded rice for her medicine. The next hamlet over is a fishing community. Where diving and fishing is essentially the only economic industry. These villages work hard year round for little
Haruko’s World is an ethnography about the rural Japanese woman in 1970s. The author of Haruko’s World is Gail Lee Bernstein. Bernstein works at a University in San Diego as a professor. Is is an American anthropologist and studies Japanese culture. Haruko's World is her second ethnography trip to Japan.
Bernstein I feel is a very organized person. She separates her work, home affairs, and emotions . Living with Haruko she is dismayed at how with every action Haruko ruins this separation and drags personal and work into one big pile. Bernstein’ s lack of interest in what she looks like summary dismays Haruko, but Bernstein cares deeply for the functionality of outfits.
To write this paper Bernstein wanted to go behind scenes and casually stroll in and let them open up to her. But for the first …show more content…
Haruko doses majority of the work; she works dawn to dusk. When she was pregnant she worked until she gave birth and as soon as possible she was out working again; allowing her mother-in-law to raise her children. She sometimes picks up the extra work when her husband, Sho-ichi, devotes himself to the community. Haruko occasionally works at a second job for a short time. Many women make clothing for the family. This helps with keeping spending low. The community is a rural farming community. Mostly rice and cash crops are grown. It has seasons where it requires all hands on deck; these harvesting seasons are huge to the economy. Though this brings in huge amounts of money; the family has to split the rest of the year from this one transaction period. Families often need a second job or a second income at some point in the year. Trades are often done; an example is when Haruko was very ill she traded rice for her medicine. The next hamlet over is a fishing community. Where diving and fishing is essentially the only economic industry. These villages work hard year round for little