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| | Amazon.com: Geisha: Books: Liza Crihfield Dalby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Dalby illustrates broader cultural differences, too, with a million tiny details about boisterous customers, how many hundred-weight of tabi (split-toed socks) geishas go through, what defines iki (chic), why maiko (young apprentices) are drawn to the life, and what geisha wear, from the skin out. |
 | | Dalby used her unique position as the sole American woman (at that time) to serve as a geisha in order to examine their role, impact and influence in Japan. |
 | | Dalby's book is an anthropological work (Dalby herself is an anthropologist, I believe) and is written in what is a popular style for scholarly anthropological literature, interweaving personal experience with information collected from interviews with her subjects with historical references and references to other such literature. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520204956?v=glance (2013 words) |
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