Lebra, Takie Sugiyama,  1930- <br/><br/>
Above the clouds :  status culture of the modern Japanese nobility / 
Takie Sugiyama Lebra. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  �1993. 
 - 1 online resource (xvii, 430 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-407) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520911796 0520911792 0585106029 9780585106021 9780520076006 0520076001 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/cttsz8cq  JSTOR 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1900-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nobility--Japan.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.<br/>POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.<br/>Manners and customs.<br/>Nobility.<br/>Sociale status.<br/>Adel.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan--Social life and customs--20th century.<br/>Japan.<br/>Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Elites Japan 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS822.3  / .L42 1993eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/0952