| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The practice of tradition and modernity in contemporary Japan / John W. Traphagan and Christopher S. Thompson -- The social impact of rural-urban shift : some Akita examples / John A. Mock -- Rice revolutions and farm families in Tōhoku : why is farming culturally central and economically marginal? / William W. Kelly -- Young women making lives in northeast Japan / Nancy R. Rosenberger -- Negotiating internationalization in Kitasawa / Tomoko Watanabe Traphagan -- Preserving the Ochiai deer dance : tradition and continuity in a Tōhoku hamlet / Christopher S. Thompson -- Heartbreak's destination : Tōhoku in the poetic discourse of Enka / Debra J. Occhi -- Tradition and modernity merged in Tsugaru Nuri lacquerware : perspectives of preservation and promotion, production and consumption / Anthony S. Rausch -- Epilogue : Tōhoku : a place / L. Keith Brown. |
| Summary |
Annotation This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rural, traditional and modern, and industrial and agricultural to define their existence and the experience of living in. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Japan. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
| Subject |
Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
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Civilization. |
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Social change -- Japan.
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Social change. |
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Culture and globalization -- Japan.
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Culture and globalization. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Thompson, Christopher, 1962-
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Traphagan, John W.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wearing cultural styles in Japan. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006 0791466973 (DLC) 2005012104 (OCoLC)60188263 |
| ISBN |
1423773489 (electronic book) |
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9781423773481 (electronic book) |
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0791466973 |
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9780791466971 |
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9780791482100 |
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0791482103 |
| Standard No. |
9780791466971 |
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