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Japanese Culture and Society. Models of Interpretation

Einzelheiten

1996, ISBN 3-89129-492-1, € 45,—, iudicium Verlag, München, 361 S., geb. [Bestellen]

Autoren

Ölschleger, Hans Dieter
Kreiner, Josef

Japanese Culture and Society. Models of Interpretation

Japanese Culture and Society. Models of Interpretation

This is not a book on Japan or on some aspects of Japanese culture and society. It is a book on the representation of Japan in Western society, and therefore it deals with our thoughts. The topic of this book is the construction of phenomena labeled Japanese culture, Japanese society or the Japanese by means of a corpus of theoretical and methodological proceedings called „social science“ or „humanities“. Everyone familiar with the results of Japan-related scholarship is aware of the multitude of approaches developed since the Meiji Restoration, when the opening of the country to foreigners made systematic studies of the culture and society possible.


The editors view the approaches presented in this volume as part of the wider field of the representation of Japan in Western society, a representation which, even at the risk of oversimplification, it seems fair to characterize as shaped by stereotypes from its very beginnings. Therefore, one of the most important tasks in reviewing the efforts of Japanese studies seems to be the identification of external influences on the academic approach to Japanese culture and society. Once this is done, a revision of the Western image of Japan might be undertaken in order to break down stereotypes and clichés.

Inhalt

Distelrath, G.
The Paradigm of Eternal Recurrence: How the Structure of Academic Debate on the Japanese Economy itself Founded the

Berque, A.
The Japanese Thought of Milieu (fudo): From Peculiarism to the Quest of the Paradigm

Ölschleger, Hans Dieter
The Tumbling Walls of the Ivory Tower: Cultural Anthropology Meets the Japanese

Linhart, S.
Community Studies on Japan

Kuwayama, T.
The Familial (ie) Model of Japanese Society

Mouer, R./Tsuboi, T./Wearne, B.
The Multi-Dimensional Stratification Model: A Focus on Variation and the Comparative Perspective

Sugimoto, Y.
The Conflict Model of Japanese Society

Pörtner, P.
How to Conflict Intelligently: Six Notes Concerning the Processing of Dissent in Japan

Lenz, I.
On the Potential of Gender Studies for the Understanding of Japanese Society

Johnson, F. A.
Interdependent Affiliation among Japanese: The Many Facets of amae

Hamaguchi, E.
The Contextual Model in Japanese Studies

Ölschleger, Hans Dieter; Kreiner, Josef
Preface