Author

Publication

2001 - Distributed in North America by International Specialized Book Services, Melbourne, Australia

Language

English

Word Count

45,250 words, Guess

Page Count

181 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101876843055
  • ISBN-139781876843052
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001430479
  • OCLC Control Number47351240
  • Better World Books9781876843052
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC952.04
  • LCCDS830 .H43 2001
  • LCCDS830.H43 2001

Description

"In spite of rapid changes taking place in Japan, the dominant identity discourse of Japan - Nihonjinron - has maintained its hegemonic position in the ideological landscape. Japanese intellectuals have been producing and continue to produce a massive and ever increasing literature on the subject with no end in sight. In Hegemony of Homogeneity, Harumi Befu, a bilingual anthropologist who has dedicated the past 40 years to studying Japan, dissects, analyzes, and interprets this discourse by consulting hundreds of original Japanese sources. Befu argues that Nihonjinron is, among others, a civil religion for the Japanese and a creature responding to Japan's changing geo-political and geo-economic environment." --Book Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Japanese society series

Other Editions

  • Hegemony of homogeneity: an anthropological analysis of "Nihonjinron"Distributed in North America by International Specialized Book Services2001-01-01

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