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Above the clouds : status culture of the modern Japanese nobility / Takie Sugiyama Lebra.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911796
  • 0520911792
  • 0585106029
  • 9780585106021
  • 9780520076006
  • 0520076001
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Above the clouds.DDC classification:
  • 306.4/0952 20
LOC classification:
  • DS822.3 .L42 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Orthographic Note on Japanese Words -- Studying the Aristocracy: Why, What, and How? -- Creating the Modern Nobility: The Historical Legacy -- Ancestors: Constructing Inherited Charisma -- Successors: Immortalizing the Ancestors -- Life-Style: Markers of Status and Hierarchy -- Marriage: Realignment of Women and Men -- Socialization: Acquisition and Transmission of Status Culture -- Status Careers: Privilege and Liability -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The End of Showa.
Summary: This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his family. Officially dissolved in 1947, this group of social elites is still generally perceived as nobility. Lebra gained entry into this tightly knit circle and conducted more than one hundred interviews with its members.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-407) and index.

Print version record.

Orthographic Note on Japanese Words -- Studying the Aristocracy: Why, What, and How? -- Creating the Modern Nobility: The Historical Legacy -- Ancestors: Constructing Inherited Charisma -- Successors: Immortalizing the Ancestors -- Life-Style: Markers of Status and Hierarchy -- Marriage: Realignment of Women and Men -- Socialization: Acquisition and Transmission of Status Culture -- Status Careers: Privilege and Liability -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The End of Showa.

This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his family. Officially dissolved in 1947, this group of social elites is still generally perceived as nobility. Lebra gained entry into this tightly knit circle and conducted more than one hundred interviews with its members.

In English.

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