Modern Japan Through Its Weddings

Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal

Walter Edwards (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

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

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• 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