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Author Surak, Kristin, 1976- author.

Title Making tea, making Japan : cultural nationalism in practice / Kristin Surak.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preparing tea : spaces, objects, performances -- Creating tea : the national transformation of a cultural practice -- Selling tea : an anatomy of the iemoto system -- Enacting tea : doing and demonstrating Japaneseness -- Beyond the tea room : toward a praxeology of nationness and nationalism.
Summary The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here.
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Subject Japanese tea ceremony.
Japanese tea ceremony.
Nationalism -- Japan.
Nationalism.
Japan.
National characteristics, Japanese.
National characteristics, Japanese.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780804778664 0804778663 (DLC) 2012021000
ISBN 0804784795 (electronic book)
9780804784795 (electronic book)
9780804778664 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804778663 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780804778671 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0804778671 (paperback ; alkaline paper)