Love in Modern Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex, and Society (Anthropology of Asia)
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Book
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ISBN 10
041577005X
ISBN 13
9780415770057
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Publication Year
2006
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Pages
192
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This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization and love as sexuality must be kept analytically separate. Chapters include discussions on sexualized rituals and fertility festivals, the murder case of Abe Sada, pure love in Miko and Mako’s tragedy and the 1990s phenomenon of ‘enjokosai’ or aid-date. Combining ethnographic, theoretical and archival research, this text will appeal to scholars of Japanese anthropology, feminist anthropology and gender studies alike. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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