Above the clouds: status culture of the modern Japanese nobility
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1. Verfasser: Lebra, Takie Sugiyama (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©1993
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-407) and index
Orthographic Note on Japanese Words -- Studying the Aristocracy: Why, What, and How? -- Creating the Modern Nobility: The Historical Legacy -- Ancestors: Constructing Inherited Charisma -- Successors: Immortalizing the Ancestors -- Life-Style: Markers of Status and Hierarchy -- Marriage: Realignment of Women and Men -- Socialization: Acquisition and Transmission of Status Culture -- Status Careers: Privilege and Liability -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The End of Showa
This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his family. Officially dissolved in 1947, this group of social elites is still generally perceived as nobility. Lebra gained entry into this tightly knit circle and conducted more than one hundred interviews with its members
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 430 pages, [14] pages of plates)
ISBN:0520076001
0520911792
0585106029
9780520911796
9780585106021

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