ISBN:
0415413141
,
9780415413145
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 224 p)
,
ill
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Japan anthropology workshop series
Parallel Title:
Print version Making Japanese Heritage
DDC:
306.0952
Keywords:
Public history
;
Cultural property
;
Material culture
;
Japan Civilization
;
Japan Social life and customs
Abstract:
Examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan. This book investigates the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions come to be seen as forms of heritage which are ascribed public recognition and political significance
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgments and technical note; Introduction; Part I Performing Japaneseness through heritage; 1 Making "Japanese" tea; 2 Before making heritage: Internationalisation of geisha in the Meiji period; 3 Making art in the Japanese way: Nihonga as process and symbolic action; Part II Institutionalising Japanese heritage; 4 Architecture, folklore studies, and cultural democracy: Nagakura Saburô and Hida Minzoku-mura
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Nô masks on stage and in museums: Approaches to the contextualisation and conservation of the Pitt Rivers Museum nô mask collection6 Company culture or patinated past?: The display of corporate heritage in Sumitomo; Part III Japanese local heritage and the wider world; 7 A heady heritage: The shifting biography of kashira (puppet heads) as cultural heritage objects in the Awaji tradition; 8 Cloth and identity in Yaeyama: A search for context; 9 Houses in motion: The revitalisation of Kyoto's architectural heritage
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Automated alterities: Movement and identity in the history of the Japanese Kôbe ningyôPart IV Perpetuating Japanese heritage; 11 Maintaining a Zen tradition in Japan: The concrete problem of priest succession; 12 Debating the past to determine the future in Shinkyô, a Japanese commune; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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