ISBN:
9780520271159
,
9780520259331
,
0520259335
,
0520271157
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 222 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
California studies in food and culture 36
Series Statement:
California studies in food and culture
DDC:
641.3/3730952
Keywords:
Coffee Social aspects
;
Coffeehouses Social aspects
;
Popular culture
;
Coffee Social aspects
;
Japan
;
Coffeehouses Social aspects
;
Jpaan
;
Popular culture Japan
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Japan
;
Kaffeehaus-Szene
;
Kaffeeverbrauch
;
Ethnologie
Abstract:
"Traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality, dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public."--Publisher's description
Abstract:
"Traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality, dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public."--Publisher's description
Description / Table of Contents:
Coffee in public : cafes in urban Japan -- Japan's cafes : coffee and the counter-intuitive -- Modernity and the passion factory -- Masters of their universes : performing perfection -- Japan's liquid power -- Making coffee Japanese : taste in the contemporary cafe -- Urban public culture : third spaces and the social order -- Knowing your place -- Visits to cafes.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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