Coffee Life in Japan

Merry White

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English

University of California Press
01 May 2012

Food & society; Sociology: sport & leisure; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: California Studies in Food and Culture

This fascinating book-part ethnography, part memoir-traces Japan's vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality , dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.

By: Merry White
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 36
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520259331
ISBN 10: 0520259335
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Merry White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and is the author of many books, including Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (UC Press) and The Japanese Overseas.

Reviews for Coffee Life in Japan

You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes. --Serious Eats A fascinating 130-year illumination of Japan's deeply rooted sipping culture. --La Weekly This excellent book combines academic rigour with lively descriptions and compelling prose. --Times Higher Education Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation - all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and ... you'll probably enjoy this too. --Jimseven