Modern Japan Through Its Weddings

Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal

Walter Edwards (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

1989
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-1512-6 (ISBN)

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This text focuses on Japanese weddings as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between the commercialization of these services and their symbolic content. Weddings mark the attainment of full adult status in Japan and this book looks at what marriage and adulthood means in Japan.

Introduction 1. The performance 2. Background 3. The actors 4. The stage and its managers 5. Imaging the marital ideal 6. Gender, person, and society Conclusion Notes Index.

Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8047-1512-2 / 0804715122
ISBN-13	978-0-8047-1512-6 / 9780804715126
Zustand	Neuware