| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-407) and index. |
| Contents |
Orthographic Note on Japanese Words -- Studying the Aristocracy: Why, What, and How? -- Creating the Modern Nobility: The Historical Legacy -- Ancestors: Constructing Inherited Charisma -- Successors: Immortalizing the Ancestors -- Life-Style: Markers of Status and Hierarchy -- Marriage: Realignment of Women and Men -- Socialization: Acquisition and Transmission of Status Culture -- Status Careers: Privilege and Liability -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The End of Showa. |
| Summary |
This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his family. Officially dissolved in 1947, this group of social elites is still generally perceived as nobility. Lebra gained entry into this tightly knit circle and conducted more than one hundred interviews with its members. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Japan. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Nobility -- Japan.
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Nobility. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Elites |
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Japan |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, 1930- Above the clouds. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993 0520076001 (DLC) 91028488 (OCoLC)24319906 |
| ISBN |
9780520911796 (electronic book) |
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0520911792 (electronic book) |
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0585106029 (electronic book) |
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9780585106021 (electronic book) |
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9780520076006 (alkaline paper) |
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0520076001 (alkaline paper) |
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0520076001 |
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