Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Flowers That Kill

Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces

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Produktbeschreibung

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous books, including Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan (7th printing in 1997) and Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time (3rd printing in 1995), the editor of Culture Through Time (Stanford, 1991), and contributor to Golden Arches East (Stanford, 2006).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780804794107
• ISBN-10: 0804794103
• Artikelnr.: 42799227

Autorenporträt

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous books, including Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan (7th printing in 1997) and Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time (3rd printing in 1995), the editor of Culture Through Time (Stanford, 1991), and contributor to Golden Arches East (Stanford, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Opacity, Misrecognition, and Other Complexities of Symbolic
Communication
1. Japanese Cherry Blossoms: From the Beauty of Life to the Sublimity of
Sacrificial Death
2. European Roses: From "Bread and Roses" to the Aestheticization of
Murderers
3. The Subversive Monkey in Japanese Culture: From Scapegoat to Clown
4. Rice and the Japanese Collective Self: Purity of Exclusion
5. The Collective Self and Cultural/Political Nationalisms: Cross-Cultural
Perspectives
6. The Invisible and Inaudible Japanese Emperor
7. (Non-)Externalization of Religious and Political Authority/Power: A
Cross-Cultural Perspective