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Asian Media Productions
Series: ConsumAsian Series
A substantial book on the social practices and cultural attitudes of people producing, reading, watching and listening to different kinds of media in Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and India....
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Women, Media and Consumption in Japan
Series: ConsumAsian Series
First book of its kind to examine images of women in Japanese consumerism. Explores a variety of media targeted at women - in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consumer trends. Covers visual and print media....
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Unwrapping Japan
Society and Culture in Anthropological Perspective
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan
Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in the literature published about Japan. Yet it seems that the more that is written about Japan and Japanism – its culture, society, people – the more mysterious it becomes. As well as exploring issues relating to advertising, tourism, women,...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Language and Popular Culture in Japan
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan
When this book was originally published it was the first work of its kind to examine the way in which language is used to express the ‘myth’ of advertising slogans and other popular cultural forms. By making use of general theories from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, media studies...
Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Japanese Whaling?
End of an Era
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan
This book gives a social anthropological account of whaling culture in Japan. When originally published this was the first comprehensive account in English of the history of Japanese whaling, showing how it has given rise to a particular culture. The volume discusses what happens when that culture...
Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Okubo Diary (Routledge Revivals)
Portrait of a Japanese Valley
First published in 1985, this Routledge Revival is a lively and colourful account of life in the Japanese countryside, as seen through the eyes of an anthropologist who did fieldwork there for four years. Part journal, part ethnographic observation, part social and moral commentary, this very...
Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
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Asian Media Productions
Series: ConsumAsian Series
A substantial book on the social practices and cultural attitudes of people producing, reading, watching and listening to different kinds of media in Japan, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore and India....
Published August 9th 2001 by Routledge
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Folk Art Potters of Japan
Beyond an Anthropology of Aesthetics
Series: Anthropology of Asia
This is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the production, marketing and aesthetic appraisal of a kind of stoneware pottery generally referred to as mingei, or folk art. It shows how different people in an art world...
Published August 26th 1997 by Routledge
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A Japanese Advertising Agency
An Anthropology of Media and Markets
Series: ConsumAsian Series
This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan.By examining the production of advertising, this book turns other semiotics, media and cultural studies...
Published July 3rd 1996 by Routledge
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Women, Media and Consumption in Japan
Series: ConsumAsian Series
First book of its kind to examine images of women in Japanese consumerism. Explores a variety of media targeted at women - in particular magazines, but also television, popular literature and consumer trends. Covers visual and print media....
Published October 25th 1995 by Routledge