"An Affair with a Village" - Professor Joy Hendry's latest book

Released on Monday 15th February 2021, Extremis Publishing is pleased to announce a new book by Professor Joy Hendry. In An Affair with a Village, the renowned and award-winning anthropologist relates her experiences with the remarkable village of Kurotsuchi, where she undertook a year’s fieldwork as a doctoral student.

She made a number of wonderful friends, and over the year was invited to a number of social occasions including weddings and funerals. She also made family trees for each of the 54 houses in the village, and  a chart showing  how the families related to each other. She has continued to visit Kurotsuchi over the years.

In autumn 2019, with a Small Grant from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Joy returned to Kurotsuchi with the materials she had collected and compiled, including the family trees. The culmination of the visit was a formal handing over of the village wide family-tree chart to a gathering of village officials who had been active members of the youth group 45 years ago

Here you can watch Professor Joy Hendry give a short introduction to her book (just over 2 minutes):

For more details about the book, including a downloadable information sheet, please visit  Extremis Publishing’s website here: https://www.extremispublishing.com/an-affair-with-a-village.html

Previous Post

You can refer here for a previous post on Professor Joy’s Hendry research and writing:

http://armanios.co.uk/dev/daiwa2/news/45-years-of-research-in-japan