Interpreting Japan: Approaches and Applications for the Classroom

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Prologue
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations for chapters on linguistics
Part I Approaches and analytics
	1 Myths: images and realities of Japan
	2 Rituals: understanding patterned practices and behaviors
	3 Exchange: analyzing the flow and transfer of goods and values
	4 Macro-micro levels: linking the everyday with political economic institutions
	5 Symbols: interpreting images, representations, and meanings
	6 Identity: how collectivities configure a sense of self
	7 Popular culture: arts, entertainment, and leisure as interpretative windows
	8 Ownership: the relationship among property, politics, and personhood
	9 Embodiment: the senses, aesthetics, and knowledge formation
	10 Theatrics: social life as dramatization
Part II Applications, examples, and illustrations
	11 Schooling as an exchange with the national state
	12 The rhythms and organizations of schooling
	13 Social mobility and class in Japan
	14 Japan\'s corporate culture and Economic Liberty
	15 Political Liberation: examples from history and art
	16 Liberalist ideologies and their practice in Japan
	17 Searching for \"authentic\" Japanese identity: portrayals in popular art
	18 Delineating the \"mainstream\" identity of the Japanese
	19 The symbolism of spatial experience
	20 Making sense of sound: Japanese auditory symbolism
	21 Conceptual basics of the Japanese language
	22 How Japanese encodes time as spatial relations
	23 How political economics shapes politeness
	24 Manners and morals in everyday life
	25 Gender relations in popular art: commentary and critical appraisals
	26 Cuteness: daily aesthetics as resistance to social order
	27 Changing patterns and perceptions of the Japanese family
	28 Japanese spirituality: purification and festivals
	29 The vitalism of Japan\'s new religions
	30 Technology, time, and the culture of the copy
	31 The magic of technology: fears and fantasies in Japanese science fiction
	32 Royal weddings: the self-presentation of the state
	33 Epilogue: lessons from Japan: the \"staginess\" of postmodern social life
Appendix A: the metaphoric use of bodily parts and inner sensation
Appendix B: rituals analysis: additional aspects
Appendix C: the \"ain\'t-it-great?\" movement: an historically liminal period
Appendix D: exchange analysis: additional aspects
Appendix E: identity analysis: additional aspects
Appendix F: is the human condition natural or social? How should it be studied?
Guide to approaches and their applications, examples, and illustrations by chapter
References
Index