| Description |
1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
California studies in food and culture ; 36
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California studies in food and culture ; 36.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Coffee in public : cafés in urban Japan -- Japan's cafés : coffee and the counter-intuitive -- Modernity and the passion factory -- Masters of their universes : performing perfection -- Japan's liquid power -- Making coffee Japanese : taste in the contemporary café -- Urban public culture : Webs, grids, and third places in Japanese cities -- Knowing your place -- Visits to cafés, an unreliable guide. |
| Summary |
"This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality, dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Coffee -- Social aspects -- Japan.
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Coffee -- Social aspects. |
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Japan. |
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Coffee. |
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Coffeehouses -- Social aspects -- Japan.
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Coffeehouses. |
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Social aspects. |
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Popular culture -- Japan.
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Popular culture. |
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Japan -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: White, Merry I., 1941- Coffee life in Japan. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012 9780520259331 (DLC) 2011033139 (OCoLC)747331872 |
| ISBN |
9780520952485 electronic book |
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0520952480 electronic book |
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9780520259331 cloth |
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0520259335 cloth |
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9780520271159 paperback |
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0520271157 paperback |
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1280116811 |
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9781280116810 |
| Standard No. |
9786613521101 |
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