{"product_id":"perilous-wagers-gambling-dignity-and-day-laborers-in-twenty-first-century-tokyo-paperback","title":"Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKlaus K. Y. Hammering\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe lives of the men depicted in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerilous Wagers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003ePerilous Wagers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKlaus 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751535116576,"sku":"9781501776427","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/96d2f4900ffe4f3380fe6d1872cf7739.webp?v=1779975321","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/perilous-wagers-gambling-dignity-and-day-laborers-in-twenty-first-century-tokyo-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}