Interpreting Japan approaches and applications for the classroom (Routledge, 2014)
Prologue: To Students and Instructors Part 1: 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 2: 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 Epilogue: Lessons from Japan: The "Staginess" of Postmod
Includes bibliographical references and index