Assembling Japan
Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
Published on 29. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
251 pages
978-3-0343-1830-3 (ISBN)
Description
Assembling Japan focuses on Japan's modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation's full engagement with the global system. This process forms a complex field of tensions, full of interesting dynamisms and synergies that can be best understood through the book's methodology: anthropological analysis combined with historical contextualization.
The approaches in this collection are manifold. Some chapters examine the themes of modernity, technology and Japan's global experience though popular culture, from reggae to football, from television to film. Other topics include coffee, travel, economics, cultural politics and technological innovation in the field of robotics. All of the contributions aim to show how these global interactions have occurred and continue to take place in twenty-first-century Japan.
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-1830-3 (9783034318303)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0767-2
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Griseldis Kirsch is Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her most recent publications include 'Next-Door-Divas: Japanese Tarento, Television and Consumption' (2014, in Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema) and Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989-2005 (2015).
Dolores P. Martinez is Emeritus Reader in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, and a research associate at the University of Oxford. Her most recent publications include Remaking Kurosawa (2009) and Gender in Japanese Society (2014).
Merry White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and a research associate at Harvard University's E. O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Her most recent publications include Coffee Life in Japan (2013) and a cookbook, Cooking for Crowds (2014).
Content
Contents: Griseldis Kirsch/Dolores P. Martinez: Japan as an Assemblage - Merry White: Cafe Society in Japan: Global Coffee and Urban Space - Christine R. Yano: <<A Japanese in Every Jet>>: Globalism and Gendered Service in the Jet Age - Joy Hendry: Rewrapping the Message: Museums, Healing and Communicative Power - Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne: Football in the Community: Global Culture, Local Needs and Diversity in Japan - Griseldis Kirsch: Relocating Japan? Japan, China and the West in Japanese Television Dramas - Bruce White: Japanese Reggae and the Def Tech Phenomenon: Global Paths to Intra-cultural Pluralism - Heung-wah Wong/Hoi-yan Yau: The More I Shop at Yaohan, the More I Become a Heung Gong Yahn (Hongkongese): Japan and the Formation of a Hong Kong Identity - Dolores P. Martinez: Global Technologies, Local Interventions: Or Musings on Japanese Film - Hirofumi Katsuno: Branding Humanoid Japan - Griseldis Kirsch/Wolfram Manzenreiter/John Horne/Merry White/Hirofumi Katsuno/Dolores P. Martinez: Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11.