Perilous Wagers

Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo

Klaus K. Y. Hammering (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7641-0 (ISBN)

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The lives of the men depicted in Perilous Wagers take place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where they can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns to metropolitan Tokyo. Although San'ya has nearly vanished during the past twenty years, its import persists as a black market where its small population of male day-laborers can be contracted for the most undesirable of tasks, without consideration for their health or safety. In this context, Hammering's book examines classic ethnographic themes of labor, exchange, value, honor, shame, temporality, desire, gender, and personhood. It explores how one group of day-laborers embodied a transgressive masculinity intimately intertwined with honorable mobster values of old, and how they created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life. Perilous Wagers tracks these underdog values across construction sites, non-profit organizations, hospitals, bunkhouses, and illegal gambling dens, giving imaginative life to a stigmatized, forgotten social world.

Klaus K. Y. Hammering received his doctorate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is currently an independent scholar who writes on issues of cultural politics, ideology, fascism, labor, and transgression in Japan today.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Zusatzinfo	10 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	907 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-5017-7641-X / 150177641X
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-7641-0 / 9781501776410
Zustand	Neuware