TY  - BOOK
AU  - Satomi Ishikawa
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2235-5766
TI  - Seeking the Self
T2  - Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102381
N2  - This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to Euro-American cultures, in which the self is considered to be the essence of personhood, in Japanese culture the self is constantly reconstructed in relation to others. This particular self is studied by examining the ways popular culture is consumed, with a special focus on manga, the Japanese word for comics and cartoons.   The first part of the book contains an ethnographic research in which the author investigates the relationship between popular media and the search for self-knowledge. In the second part a historical analysis traces the development of self-seeking in Japan since the country’s modernisation period.
KW  - Asian Study, Japan, Manga, Selbstbild, Individualismus, Alltagskultur, Philosophy, Cultural Anthropology, Japanese, Cultural study, Folklore Study
LA  - English
ER  -