The culture of copying in Japan
Subtitle: critical and historical perspectives
By: edited by Rupert Cox.
Contributors: Cox, Rupert A.
Series: Japan anthropology workshop series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415307529
Subjects: Material culture -- Japan; Technological innovations -- Japan; Japan -- Civilization -- Foreign influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Body to body transmission : the copying tradition of Kagura performance / Irit Averbuch; title: A spectrum of copies : ritual puppetry in Japan / Jane Marie Law; title: Copying in Japanese magazines : unashamed copiers / Keiko Tanaka; title: The originality of the "copy" : mimesis and subversion in Hanegawa Toei's Chosenjin Ukie; title: Copy to convert : Jesuits' missionary practice in Japan / Alexandra Curvelo; title: Back to the fundamentals : "reproducing" Riky and Chjir in Japanese tea culture / Morgan Pitelka; title: An investigation of the conditions of literary borrowings in late Heian and early Kamakura Japan / Rein Raud; title: Chinese calligraphic models in Heian Japan : copying practices and stylistic transmission / John Carpenter; title: Beyond mimesis : Japanese architectural models at the Vienna Exhibition and 1910 Japan British Exhibition / William Coaldrake; title: Copying Kyoto : the legitimacy of imitation in Kyoto's townscape debates / Christoph Brumann; title: Copying cars : forgotten licensing agreements / Chris Madeley; title: "Hungry visions" : the material life of Japanese food samples / Rupert Cox.