Making tea, making Japan : cultural nationalism in practice / Kristin Surak.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Surak, Kristin, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese tea ceremony.

Nationalism--Japan.

Nationalism.

Japan.

National characteristics, Japanese.

Physical Description:

xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Production:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013, ©2013.

Summary:

The tea ceremony persists as an evocative symbol of Japan. Premodern in origin, it was recast as a political emblem of the modern Japanese state, and then transformed into its contemporary incarnation as a cultural icon of the country. Throughout these conversions, its practitioners have played an integral role in defining and redefining what it means to be Japanese. Employing ethnographic, historical, institutional, and phenomenological methods, Kristin Surak shows how the tea ceremony has become intimately tied to national identity through" a process she terms "nation-work." Making Tea, Making Japan includes an account of the historical evolution of the tea world and a detailed investigation of its contemporary organization to offer a systematic study of the ways that cultural practices define, explain, embody, and cultivate nations. The book concludes with an examination of the connections between nationness and nationalism as forms of nation-work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preparing tea : spaces, objects, performances

Creating tea : the national transformation of a cultural practice

Selling tea : an anatomy of the iemoto system

Enacting tea : doing and demonstrating Japaneseness

Beyond the tea room : toward a praxeology of nationness and nationalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-242) and index.

ISBN:

9780804778664

0804778663

9780804778671

0804778671

OCLC:

788271948