Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action 9780824874513

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Communication in Modern Social Ordering investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of

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Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal 9781503621510

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Japan Unmasked: Understanding Japan and its people

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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868 9780520928305

This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes—including ma

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On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan 9780804778886

The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Toky

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Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan 9004368191, 9789004368194

Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of r

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Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production 1317250494, 9781317250494

Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditatio

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Confucianism in Modern Japan

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Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice 9781644533031

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized b

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Immediate Struggles: People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain 9780520939011

This superb historical and ethnographic study of the political economy of the Vega Baja region of Spain, one of the Euro

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