Discourses of the vanishing : modernity, phantasm, Japan /

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Author / Creator:	Ivy, Marilyn.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Ethnology -- Japan. National characteristics, Japanese. Nationalism -- Japan. Ethnocentrism -- Japan. Culture -- Semiotic models. Culture -- Semiotic models. Ethnocentrism. Ethnology. Manners and customs. National characteristics, Japanese. Nationalism. Japan -- Social life and customs. Japan. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206057

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ISBN:	9780226388342 0226388344 0226388328 9780226388328 0226388336 9780226388335 0226388328 9780226388328
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties--and the attempts to contain them--as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompani.
Other form:	Print version: Ivy, Marilyn. Discourses of the vanishing. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995 0226388328
Standard no.:	9780226388328

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