Flowers that kill
Subtitle: communicative opacity in political spaces
By: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780804794107; 9780804795890
Subjects: Symbolism in communication; Symbolism in politics; Flowers; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : opacity, misrecognition, and other complexities of symbolic communication; title: Japanese cherry blossoms : from the beauty of life to the sublimity of sacrificial death; title: European roses : from 'bread and roses' to the aestheticization of murderers; title: The subversive monkey in Japanese culture : from scapegoat to clown; title: Rice and the Japanese collective self : the purity of exclusion; title: The collective self and cultural/political nationalisms : cross-cultural perspectives; title: The invisible and inaudible Japanese emperor; title: (Non-)externalization of religious and political authority and power : a cross-cultural perspective.