04597nam 2200733Ia 450 991096660530332120200520144314.09780791482100079148210397814237734811423773489(CKB)1000000000462321(EBL)3407630(SSID)ssj0000269639(PQKBManifestationID)11194815(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269639(PQKBWorkID)10243780(PQKB)11614754(OCoLC)69242535(MdBmJHUP)muse6380(Au-PeEL)EBL3407630(CaPaEBR)ebr10579053(OCoLC)923407384(DE-B1597)683889(DE-B1597)9780791482100(MiAaPQ)EBC3407630(Perlego)2674750(EXLCZ)99100000000046232120050428d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWearing cultural styles in Japan concepts of tradition and modernity in practice /edited by Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20061 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780791466988 0791466981 9780791466971 0791466973 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I. The Political Economy of Social Change in Toâ€?hoku Japan""; ""1. The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan""; ""2. The Social Impact of Ruralâ€?Urban Shift: Some Akita Examples""; ""3. Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in Toâ€?hoku: Why Is Farming Culturally Centraland Economically Marginal?""; ""Part II. Wearing Tradition and Wearing Modernity: Negotiating Paths of Social Change""; ""4. Young Women Making Lives in Northeast Japan""; ""5. Negotiating Internationalization in Kitasawa""""6. Preserving the Ochiai Deer Dance: Tradition and Continuity in a Toâ€?hoku Hamlet""""7. Heartbreakâ€?s Destination: Toâ€?hoku in the Poetic Discourse of Enka""; ""8. Tradition and Modernity Merged in Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware: Perspectives of Preservation and Promotion, Production and Consumption""; ""9. Epilogue: Toâ€?hoku: A Place""; ""Contributors""; ""Name Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Subject Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""""G""""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""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.Social changeJapanCulture and globalizationJapanJapanSocial conditions1945-JapanCivilization1945-Social changeCulture and globalization952.04Thompson Christopher1962-1814979Traphagan John W808117MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966605303321Wearing cultural styles in Japan4369252UNINA