This book explores the multiplicity of special times and spaces in Japan within which people get together to decide, celebrate or play, in gatherings such as organizational meetings, community festivities, preschool games or drinking bouts. It analyzes these gatherings in relation to the theoretical model of sociocultural frames, examining how such occasions are put together, their unfolding stages, interactive encounters, and relations between participants and the wider social and cultural contexts. It considers the cognitive, emotional and behavioural dimensions, the scope for manipulation and the effects, intentional and unintentional, on participants and the connections to the ways in which in society and culture change. Overall, besides describing specific rites and ceremonies in Japan, the book provides great insights into the process whereby the interactions, feelings and action of individuals and groups shape popular culture.
By:
Eyal Ben-Ari
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367887315
ISBN 10: 0367887312
Series: Routledge Culture, Society, Business in East Asia Series
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
,
General/trade
,
Primary
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Chapter One – Introduction, Chapter Two – From Mothering to Othering: Organization and Nap Time in a Japanese Preschool Chapter Three – The Gambaru Complex: Learning to Overcome Obstacles through Individual and Collective Action Chapter Four – Teachers' Meetings: Information, Quality Control and Decisions Chapter Five – A Sports Day in Suburban Japan: Leisure, artificial Communities and the Creation of Locality Chapter Six – Posing, Posturing and Photographic Presences: A Rite of Passage in a Japanese Commuter Village Chapter Seven – Sake and Spare Time: Management and Imbibement in Japanese Business Firms Chapter Eight – ""Not-Precisely-Work"": Golf, Entertainment and Drinking Among Japanese Business Executives in Singapore Chapter Nine – Coincident Events of Remembrance, Coexisting Spaces of Memory: The Annual Memorial Rites at Yasukuni Shrine. Chapter Ten – Public Events and Japanese the Self-Defense Forces: Aesthetics, Ritual Density and the Normalization of Military Violence Chapter Eleven – Power, Play and Transformation"
Eyal Ben-Ari is Chairman of the Center for Society, Security and Peace in Memory of Dan Shomron at Kinneret Academic College, Israel
