Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan

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Description

This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rural, traditional and modern, and industrial and agricultural to define their existence and the experience of living in contemporary Japanese society. The book focuses on the Tohoku (Northeast) region, which many Japanese consider rural, agrarian, undeveloped economically, and the epitome of the traditional way of life. While this stereotype overstates the case—the region is home to one of Japan's largest cities—most Japanese contrast Tohoku (everything traditional) with Tokyo (everything modern). However, the contributors show how various regional phenomena—internationalization, lacquerware production, farming, enka (modern Japanese ballads), women's roles, and professional dance —combine the traditional, the modern, and the global. Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan demonstrates that while people use the dichotomies of urban/rural and traditional/modern in order to define their experiences, these categories are no longer useful in analyzing contemporary Japan.
Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Part I. The Political Economy of Social Change in Tohoku Japan

1. The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan
John W. Traphagan and Christopher S. Thompson

2.The Social Impact of Rural–Urban Shift: Some Akita Examples
John A. Mock

3. Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in Tohoku: Why Is Farming Culturally Central and Economically Marginal?
William W. Kelly

Part II. Wearing Tradition and Wearing Modernity: Negotiating Paths of Social Change

4. Young Women Making Lives in Northeast Japan
Nancy R. Rosenberger

5. Negotiating Internationalization in Kitasawa
Tomoko Watanabe Traphagan

6. Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition and Continuity in a Tohoku Hamlet
Christopher S. Thompson

7. Heartbreak’s Destination: Tohoku in the Poetic Discourse of Enka
Debra J. Occhi

8. Tradition and Modernity Merged in Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware: Perspectives of Preservation and Promotion, Production and Consumption
Anthony S. Rausch

9. Epilogue: Tohoku: A Place
L. Keith Brown

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Types of rural communities
• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791482100
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Wearing Cultural Styles inJapan c o n c e p t s o ft r a d i t i o n a n d m o de r n i t yp r a c t i c ei n

christopher s.thom psonand john w.traphagan | editors

Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan

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Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan

Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice

Edited by Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Wearing cultural styles in Japan : concepts of tradition and modernity in practice / edited by Christopher Thompson and John W. Traphagan. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0791466973 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Japan—Social conditions—1945– 2. Japan—Civilization—1945– 3. Social change—Japan. 4. Culture and globalization—Japan. I. Thompson, Christopher, 1962– II. Traphagan, John W.

HN723.5.W43 2006 952.04—dc22

ISBN13: 9780791466971 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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In memory of

Jackson H. Bailey

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Contents

Part I The Political Economy – of Social Change in Tohoku Japan

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 Tohoku: Why Is Farming Culturally Central and Economically Marginal? William W. Kelly

Part II Wearing Tradition and Wearing Modernity: Negotiating Paths of Social Change

Young Women Making Lives in Northeast Japan Nancy R. Rosenberger

Negotiating Internationalization in Kitasawa Tomoko Watanabe Traphagan

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Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Contributors

Name Index Subject Index

Contents

Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition – and Continuity in a Tohoku Hamlet Christopher S. Thompson

Heartbreak’s Destination: Discourse ofEnka Debra J. Occhi

– Tohoku in the Poetic

Tradition and Modernity Merged in Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware: Perspectives of Preservation and Promotion, Production and Consumption Anthony S. Rausch

– Epilogue: Tohoku: A Place L. Keith Brown

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– The Course of Shonai’s Two Twentieth-Century Rice Revolutions Breakdown of Registered Foreigners in Municipalities in Kitasawa Organized International Activities in Kitasawa Total Population of Ochiai Hamlet (1955–2002) – – Total Population of Towa-cho (1955–2002)

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Figures

Age Distributions for Iwate, Miyagi, and Akita Prefectures (2000) Population of Japan: Historic and Projected Japan and Akita: Percentage of 65Population Population of Akita: Historic and Projected Akita Population: Total and 65 Five-Town Comparison – The Shonai Area The Aka River Drainage Basin The Increase in Registered Foreign Guests in Kitasawa, 1989–2000 In a TypicalShishi OdoriPerformance . . . Its Ominous-Looking Animal Head . . .