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Jennifer Robertson

Robo sapiens japanicus

Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

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Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in mass and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourse of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots-humanoids… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-520-95906-4
  • EAN: 9780520959064
  • Produktnummer: 22409468
  • Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 280 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 19'173 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is author of Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan and Native and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City.

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