by Liza Dalby · Grijalbo Mondadori S.L. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422690160
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«Geisha. El mundo secreto de las geishas» is the anthropological study by Liza Dalby, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in hardback (318 pages, in Spanish).
Liza Dalby, an American anthropologist, travelled to Kyoto to study geishas and became the first foreign woman to work as one for a year. This study recounts her apprenticeship with her teacher and fellow geishas and reveals the codes of seduction, aesthetics and daily life of that closed world.
Study based on the author's doctoral thesis, originally published in 1983; this Spanish edition includes photographs and illustrations.
For readers interested in Japanese culture, anthropology and personal memoirs.
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.
