Top 10 Best "Flying Carp" Books

Japanese Accents in Western Interiors

Peggy Landers Rao
Jean Mahoney
Toshiaki Sakuma

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Gift-Giving in Japan

Katherine Rupp

Flying Carp

Gift-Giving in Japan

Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan. Gift-Giving in Japan is based on eighteen months' fieldwork in the Tokyo metropolitan area, as well as short-term research in other parts of Japan. The core of the study is the experience of family representatives of different ages, classes, genders, occupations, neighborhoods, and religions. The author also interviewed experts, including the author of gift-giving etiquette books, Buddhist and Shinto priests, department store and funeral home employees, and workers at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. She participated in neighborhood festivals, election rallies, house-building rites, and other ceremonies of which gift-giving was an integral part. Recent anthropological interest in drawing a strong contrast between commodities and gifts both reflects and reinforces the conception of the gift as part of the giver...

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Water and Society (Wit Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)

D. W. Pepper
C. A. Brebbia

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The True Story Behind the Brookhaven and Carp Incidents

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A contemptible little flying corps

Ian McInnes

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Arkansas bighead carp take flying leap toward Chicago.(Asian carp have migrated up the Mississippi)

Martha Leonard

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The Inward Path

Nichiko Niwano

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Japanese Celebrations

Tazuko Inui
Selina Yoon
Nguyen Thi Hop

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More Efficient Utilization of Fish and Fisheries Products (Developments in Food Science,)

M. Sakaguchi

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Celebrity Fish Talk

Dave Strege

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The only way your past can

affect your future is if you

claim it as truth instead

of process it as an experience.

~EJ Thornton

The Animal Lore of Shakespeare's Time Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish and Insects

Emma Phipson

Flying Carp

The Complete Paddler

David L. Miller

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