Research Catalog

Title

Wearing cultural styles in Japan : concepts of tradition and modernity in practice / edited by Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Thompson, Christopher, 1962-
• Traphagan, John W.

Description

xi, 216 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Culture and globalization > Japan
• Social change > Japan
• Japan > Social conditions > 1945-
• Japan > Civilization > 1945-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The practice of tradition and modernity in contemporary Japan / John W. Traphagan and Christopher S. Thompson -- The social impact of rural-urban shift : some Akita examples / John A. Mock -- Rice revolutions and farm families in Tōhoku : why is farming culturally central and economically marginal? / William W. Kelly -- Young women making lives in northeast Japan / Nancy R. Rosenberger -- Negotiating internationalization in Kitasawa / Tomoko Watanabe Traphagan -- Preserving the Ochiai deer dance : tradition and continuity in a Tōhoku hamlet / Christopher S. Thompson -- Heartbreak's destination : Tōhoku in the poetic discourse of Enka / Debra J. Occhi -- Tradition and modernity merged in Tsugaru Nuri lacquerware : perspectives of preservation and promotion, production and consumption / Anthony S. Rausch -- Epilogue : Tōhoku : a place / L. Keith Brown.

Call Number

JFE 06-7521

ISBN

0791466973 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005012104
• 9780791466971

OCLC

60188263

Title

Wearing cultural styles in Japan : concepts of tradition and modernity in practice / edited by Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan.

Imprint

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents

Added Author

Thompson, Christopher, 1962-

Traphagan, John W.

Other Standard Identifier

9780791466971

Research Call Number

JFE 06-7521