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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495889903321

Autore

Robertson Jennifer Ellen

Titolo

Native and newcomer : making and remaking a Japanese city / / Jennifer Robertson [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1991

ISBN

0-520-91502-X

0-585-13204-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 235 p. ) : ill., maps ;

Disciplina

952/.135

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Kodaira-shi (Japan) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Nostalgic Praxis -- 2. New Festivals for Old -- 3. The Making of Kodaira -- 4. Religious Revanche -- 5. Native Place, New Time -- 6. The Making of Kodaira Revisited -- APPENDIX: SHINDEN TYPOLOGIES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community.