Description |
290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Series |
Man & nature in Asia series ; no. 1 |
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Man and nature in Asia ; no. 1
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Contents |
Japanese perceptions of nature : ideals and illusions / Arne Kalland and Pamela J. Asquith -- The four seasons : one of Japanese culture's most central concepts / Peter Ackermann -- Natural imagery in classical Japanese poetry : the equivalence of the literal and the figural / Sonja Arntzen -- Bijinga and nature : a single beauty / Pilar Cabanas -- Nature tamed : gardens as a microcosm of Japan's view of the world / Joy Hendry -- Watsuji Tetsuro's ecological approach : its philosophical foundation / Harumi Befu -- The unnatural as ideology : contesting brain death in Japan / Margaret Lock -- Interpretations of nature and the legitimation of gender differences : 'natural' links in the Japanese social field / Nancy Rosenberger -- Doing what comes naturally : media and marketing constructions of sexuality among Japanese adolescents / Merry I. White -- Mount Fuji and the cherry blossoms : a view from afar / Brian Moeran and Lise Skov -- The can-nonization of nature in Japanese culture : machinery of the natural in food modernization / Michael Ashkenazi -- Marketing nature in rural Japan / Okpyo Moon -- The soil as teacher : natural farming in a mountain village / John Knight -- Magical thought at the interface of nature and culture / Josef A. Kyburz. In0000000000000000 |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Aesthetics, Japanese.
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Human ecology -- Japan.
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Natural history -- Japan.
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Philosophy of nature.
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SUBJECT |
Japan -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069361
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Author |
Asquith, Pamela J., 1951-
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Kalland, Arne.
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Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
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ISBN |
0700704442 |
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0700704450 |
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