The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and Historical Perspectives
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign and at the same time such a fear of their skill at artificially remaking and automating the world around them. Countering the idea of a Japan that deviously or ingenuously copies others, it elucidates the history of creative exchanges with the outside world and the particular myths, philosophies and concepts which are emblematic of the origins and original…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-134-39736-5
- EAN: 9781134397365
- Produktnummer: 18409328
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'475 KB
- Abbildungen: 69 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 60 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 9 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Rupert Cox is Lecturer in Visual Anthropology, Director of the MA programme at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of The Zen Arts: An anthropological study of the culture of aesthetic form in Japan (Routledge, 2002).
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