Above the clouds : status culture of the modern Japanese nobility /
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 gro...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppp5h |
| Sumari: | 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. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-407) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520911796 0520911792 0585106029 9780585106021 9780520076006 0520076001 |