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Love in Modern Japan - Its Estrangement From Self, Sex and Society

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Sonia Ryang is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Scholar of Korean Studies at University of Iowa. Her previous publications include Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (Routledge, 2000) and Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique (Routledge, 2004). Klappentext This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization and love as sexuality must be kept analytically separate. Chapters include discussions on sexualized rituals and fertility festivals, the murder case of Abe Sada, pure love in Miko and Mako's tragedy and the 1990s phenomenon of 'enjokosai' or aid-date. Combining ethnographic, theoretical and archival research, this text will appeal to scholars of Japanese anthropology, feminist anthropology and gender studies alike. Zusammenfassung Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, Sonia Ryang demonstrates that love as idealization and love as sexuality must be kept analytically separate and places the concept of love in Japan in both a social and historical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. 1. Sacred Sex 2. Sovereign and Love 3. Pure Love 4. Body and Soul. Conclusion

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Authors Sonia Ryang, Sonia (University of Iowa Ryang, Ryang Sonia
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.07.2008
 
EAN 9780415479264
ISBN 978-0-415-47926-4
No. of pages 180
Series Anthropology of Asia
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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