My Body Doesn't Hinder Me, So I'm Satisfied

Enacting Japanese Lives through Lingual Life Histories

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2228076
AutoresCindi L Sturtzsreetharan (0000-0001-7528-8991, Arizona State University, autor correspondente), Cindi Sturtzsreetharan
Ano2021
Volume77
Fascículo1
Páginas67-82
Data de publicação2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/712258
OpenAlexW3127446791
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas30

Drawing on narratives collected from two married individuals, I examine how a Japanese woman (Kikue) and her husband (Tōru) recast their life histories from two perspectives: changes in eating patterns and body satisfaction. Their narratives discursively construct them as particular kinds of people in a particular moment in time. Their lingual life histories are reflected in the discourses of domestic competency and body satisfaction (Kikue) and longing for youth and body disatisfaction (Tōru) which serve to enact lives of resilience and acquiescence, respectively. Additionally, they situate themselves within Japanese society by justifying actions and behaviors in ways that are deemed reasonable and comprehensible for their generation. A lingual life history account is significant because it addresses two perennial questions within linguistic anthropology: (1) how speakers’ language practices serve to (re)shape and make sense of individual experiences, and (2) how individuals both situate within and connect themselves to larger social systems

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