Wearing cultural styles in Japan
Subtitle: concepts of tradition and modernity in practice
By: edited by Christopher Thompson and John W. Traphagan.
Contributors: Thompson, Christopher, 1962-; Traphagan, John W.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Social change -- Japan.; Culture and globalization -- Japan.; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John W. Traphagan, Christopher S. Thompson; title: The social impact of rural/urban shift : some Akita examples / John Mock; title: Rice revolutions and farm families in Tôhoku : why is farming culturally central and economically marginal / William Kelly; title: The young women making lives in northeast Japan / Nancy R. Rosenberger; title: Negotiating internationalization in Kitasawa / Tomoko Watanabe; title: Preserving the Ochiai deer dance : tradition and continuity in a Tôhoku hamlet / Christopher S. Thompson; title: Heartbreak's destination : Tôhoku in the poetic discourse of Enka / Debra Occhi; title: Tradition and modernity merged in Tsugaru Nuri lacquerware : perspectives of preservation and promotion, production and consumption / Anthony S. Rausch; title: Epilogue / L. Keith Brown.