ISBN:
9780226388342
,
0226388344
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 270 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ivy, Marilyn Discourses of the vanishing
DDC:
306.40952
Keywords:
Ethnology Japan
;
Nationalism Japan
;
Ethnocentrism Japan
;
Culture Semiotic models
;
National characteristics, Japanese
;
Ethnocentrism
;
Ethnology
;
Culture Semiotic models
;
Nationalism
;
Características nacionales japonesas
;
Nacionalismo Japón
;
Etnocentrismo Japón
;
Cultura Modelos semióticos
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Culture ; Semiotic models
;
Ethnocentrism
;
Ethnology
;
Manners and customs
;
National characteristics, Japanese
;
Nationalism
;
Nationale kenmerken
;
Etnocentrisme
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Japón Vida social y costumbres
;
Japan
;
Japan
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties--and the attempts to contain them--as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompani
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-260) and index. - Description based on print version record
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