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Seeking the Self

Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan

Satomi Ishikawa (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2007
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-874-9 (ISBN)

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This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to Euro-American cultures, in which the self is considered to be the essence of personhood, in Japanese culture the self is constantly reconstructed in relation to others. This particular self is studied by examining the ways popular culture is consumed, with a special focus on manga, the Japanese word for comics and cartoons.
The first part of the book contains an ethnographic research in which the author investigates the relationship between popular media and the search for self-knowledge. In the second part a historical analysis traces the development of self-seeking in Japan since the country's modernisation period.

The Author: Satomi Ishikawa studied Chinese Studies at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo and Anthropology of Media at the School of Oriental African Studies in London. Later she worked as a freelance translator for international broadcasting services. Having lived abroad for many years, she became interested in her native culture and conducted her doctoral research in East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne, where she received her Ph.D.

Contents: Consuming Commonality: Manga, Otaku, Tamagocchi - Consuming Empathy - Making a Japanese Individual: the 1970s and the '80s - From National to Cultural Japaneseness: the Postwar Period up to 1970 - The Emergence of national Japaneseness: from the Meiji Period to 1945.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.7.2007
Reihe/Serie	Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême-Orient ; 8
Verlagsort	Lausanne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Schlagworte	Alltagskultur • Asian Study • Asiengesellschaft • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Study • Culture • Folklore study • François • Hardcover, Softcover / Ethnologie/Allgemeines, Lexika • HC/Ethnologie/Allgemeines, Lexika • Individualism • Individualismus • Ishikawa • Japan • Japanese • Manga • Philosophy • Pierre • Popular • Satomi • Schweizerische • Seeking • Selbstbild • self • Souyri
ISBN-10	3-03910-874-3 / 3039108743
ISBN-13	978-3-03910-874-9 / 9783039108749
Zustand	Neuware