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1. The Zen Arts

   An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan

   By Rupert Cox

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Making Japanese Heritage

   Edited by Christoph Brumann, Rupert A. Cox

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic,...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Culture of Copying in Japan

   Critical and Historical Perspectives

   Edited by Rupert Cox

   Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

   This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign and at...

   Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
4. The Zen Arts

   An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan

   By Rupert Cox

   Series: Royal Asiatic Society Books

   The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued...

   Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge