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  • A Discipline on Foot

    Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910–1945

    by Alan Christy ...
    Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a “one nation” social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people. Roughly corresponding to folklore studies or ethnography in the West, this social science was developed outside the academy over the first half of the ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Doing Recent History

    On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

    by Alan Christy, Alice Yang, David Greenberg, Eileen Boris, Gail Drakes, Jennifer Klein, Jeremy Saucier, Julius Bailey, Laura Brown, Martin Meeker, Nancy Kaiser, Shelley Lee, Willoughby Anderson ...
    Series series
    Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Japan Through the Looking Glass

    by Alan MacFarlane ...
    A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph'Takes in everything from the mythical roots of sumo to the ubiquity of Shinto shrines' The TimesAlan Macfarlane first encountered Japan full of certainty, confidence and unexamined assumptions. He soon found his preconceptions challenged on ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Fall of Language in the Age of English

    by Minae Mizumura ...
    Translated by Mari Yoshihara, Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Symbols and Meaning

    A Concise Introduction

    by Mari Womack ...
    Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Re-inventing Japan

    Nation, Culture, Identity

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Nothing

    Three Inquiries in Buddhism

    by Marcus Boon, Timothy Morton, Eric Cazdyn ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading Colonial Japan

    Text, Context, and Critique

    Edited by Michele Mason, Helen Lee ...
    By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean. The massive extraction of resources and extensive cultural assimilation policies radically impacted the lives of millions of Asians and Micronesians, and the political, economic, and cultural ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Not Quite Shamans

    Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia

    by Morten Axel Pedersen ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Making Tea, Making Japan

    Cultural Nationalism in Practice

    by Kristin Surak ...
    The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole?Although few non ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Contemporary Japanese Thought

    Edited by Richard Calichman ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Appearing for the first time in English, the writings in this collection reflect some of the most innovative and influential work by Japanese intellectuals in recent years. The volume offers a rare and much-needed window into the crucial ideas and positions currently shaping Japanese thought (shiso).In addressing the political, historical, and cultural issues that have dominated Japanese society, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

    Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value

    by Edward Mack, Rey Chow, Michael Dutton, Harry Harootunian, Rosalind C. Morris ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as cultural and economic power consolidated in Tokyo, the city’s literary and publishing elites came to dominate the dissemination and preservation ... Read more

    $25.19 USD