TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griseldis Kirsch
AU  - Dolores P. Martinez
AU  - Merry White
PY  - 2015
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035307672
TI  - Assembling Japan
T2  - Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0767-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053375
N2  - Assembling Japan focuses on Japan’s modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation’s full engagement with the global system. This process forms a complex field of tensions, full of interesting dynamisms and synergies that can be best understood through the book’s methodology: anthropological analysis combined with historical contextualization.  The approaches in this collection are manifold. Some chapters examine the themes of modernity, technology and Japan’s global experience though popular culture, from reggae to football, from television to film. Other topics include coffee, travel, economics, cultural politics and technological innovation in the field of robotics. All of the contributions aim to show how these global interactions have occurred and continue to take place in twenty-first-century Japan.
KW  - Japan, Nippon, Japanese culture, robots
LA  - English
ER  -