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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Tác giả chính: Lebra, Takie Sugiyama, 1930-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1993.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppp5h
Mục lục:
  • 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.