by Liza Dalby · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439709251
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«Geisha. El lenguaje secreto de la seducción» is the anthropological essay by Liza Dalby, published by Mondadori in paperback (317 pages, in Spanish).
At twenty-five, Liza Dalby decided to travel to Japan to complete her thesis on the world of geishas and observe their customs and practices up close. The book emerges from that research and brings the reader closer to these women, their environment, and the cultural keys that define their way of life.
The original work was published in 1983; the Spanish edition, from Mondadori, appeared in 2002.
For readers interested in Japanese culture, the world of geishas, and the anthropological perspective.
Liza Crihfield Dalby is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society. Since that time, she has written five books. Her first book, Geisha, was based on her early research. The next book, Kimono: Fashioning Culture is about traditional Japanese clothing and the history of the kimono. This was followed with a fictional account of the Heian era noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, titled The Tale of Murasaki. In 2007 she wrote a memoir, East Wind Melts the Ice, which was followed two years later by a second work of fiction, Hidden Buddhas.
