1st Edition

Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan

Edited By Roger Goodman, Kirsten Refsing Copyright 1992
260 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns. In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which they have... Read more
Contributors include Joy Hendry of Stirling University and Professor Okpyo Moon of the Academy of Korean Studies

Biography

Roger Goodman, Kirsten Refsing

`This volume, the latest product of the stimulating Nissan series, is a welcome addition to the anthropological literature of Japan.' - Political Studies