Japanese encounters : the structure and dynamics of cultural frames / Eyal Ben-Ari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953- author.

Series:

Routledge culture, society, business in East Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space.

Social aspects.

Time--Social aspects.

Japan--Social life and customs--1945-.

Japan.

Manners and customs.

National characteristics, Japanese.

Time--Social aspects--Japan.

Time.

Space--Social aspects--Japan.

Physical Description:

xii, 193 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

This book explores the multiplicity of special times and spaces in Japan within which people get together to decide, celebrate or play, 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 gatherings are put together, the unfolding stages, the interactive encounters, the 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.

Contents:

From mothering to othering : organization and nap time in a Japanese preschool

The Gambaru complex : learning to overcome obstacles through individual and collective action

Teachers' meetings : information, quality control and decisions

A sports day in suburban Japan : leisure, artificial communities and the creation of locality

Posing, posturing and photographic presences : a rite of passage in a Japanese commuter village

Sake and spare time : management and imbibement in Japanese business firms

"Not-precisely-work" : golf, entertainment and drinking among Japanese business executives in Singapore

Coincident events of remembrance, coexisting spaces of memory : the annual memorial rites at Yasukuni Shrine

Public events and Japanese the Self-Defense Forces : aesthetics, ritual density and the normalization of military violence breaking and creating boundaries

Power, play and transformation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138737174

1138737178

OCLC:

1007565715