ISBN:
9780520952485
,
0520952480
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (238 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
California studies in food and culture 36
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als White, Merry I., 1941- Coffee life in Japan
DDC:
641.33730952
Keywords:
Coffee Social aspects
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Japan
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Coffeehouses Social aspects
;
Japan
;
Popular culture Japan
;
Coffeehouses Social aspects
;
Popular culture
;
Coffee Social aspects
;
Coffeehouses Social aspects
;
Japan
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Social Science
;
Home Economics
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Coffee ; Social aspects
;
Manners and customs
;
Popular culture
;
Kaffee
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Kaffeehaus
;
Stadt
;
Kultur
;
Anthropology
;
Social Sciences
;
Manners & Customs
;
COOKING ; Beverages ; Coffee & Tea
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Japan
;
Japan
;
Japan
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White 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 plea
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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