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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Berkeley :
University of California Press
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppp5h |
Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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.