| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
The practice of tradition and modernity in contemporary Japan / John W. Traphagan and Christopher S. Thompson -- The social impact of rural-urban shift : some Akita examples / John A. Mock -- Rice revolutions and farm families in Tōhoku : why is farming culturally central and economically marginal? / William W. Kelly -- Young women making lives in northeast Japan / Nancy R. Rosenberger -- Negotiating internationalization in Kitasawa / Tomoko Watanabe Traphagan -- Preserving the Ochiai deer dance : tradition and continuity in a Tōhoku hamlet / Christopher S. Thompson -- Heartbreak's destination : Tōhoku in the poetic discourse of Enka / Debra J. Occhi -- Tradition and modernity merged in Tsugaru Nuri lacquerware : perspectives of preservation and promotion, production and consumption / Anthony S. Rausch -- Epilogue : Tōhoku : a place / L. Keith Brown |
| Summary |
Annotation This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rural, traditional and modern, and industrial and agricultural to define their existence and the experience of living in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social change -- Japan
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Culture and globalization -- Japan
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HISTORY.
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Civilization
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Culture and globalization
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Social change
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069578
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Japan -- Civilization -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069378
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thompson, Christopher, 1962-
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Traphagan, John W
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| LC no. |
2005012104 |
| ISBN |
1423773489 |
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9781423773481 |
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0791466973 |
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9780791466971 |
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9780791482100 |
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0791482103 |
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