Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America / Edition 1

by Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis

Overview

Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from cameras and automobiles to judo, cuisine or animation. Japan's presence in the popular imagination is heavily influenced both by the country's historical past and its global present. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415285667
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/2002
Series:	Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Edition description:	2001 First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Harumi Befu is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and Visiting Research at the National University of Ethnology, Japan. Sylvie Guichard-Anguis is a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research, France and Administrator for the Centre for Research on the Far-East, Paris-Sorbonne.

Table of Contents

List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Series Editor’s preface, Preface, Acknowledgments, PART I Introduction, PART II Human dispersal, PART III Organizational transplant, PART IV Cultural diffusion, PART V Images, Index

Editorial Reviews

This volume assembles fascinating accounts of the passages and contacts of Japanese dispersals - Japan outside Japan. The volume breaks open the 'black box' of globalization and illustrates that the flows of cultures and persons are shaped by historical, institutional and ideological forces at least as much as by politics and economics.

Merry Isaacs White