Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan
Subtitle: Concepts of Tradition And Modernity in Practice
Contributors: Christopher S. Thompson (Editor); John W. Traphagan (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 6, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780791466971
Subjects: Cultural studies; Sociology - Rural; History - General History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Japan; Anthropology - Cultural; Sociology - General; Anthropology - General; Culture and globalization; Social change
First sentence: With the development of modern or even postmodern society in Japan, the lines between tradition and modernity, urban and rural, industrial and agricultural have blurred to the point of being difficult to recognize.