Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism

Asian Experiences
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7007-1189-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: ConsumAsian Series

This book is unique in applying a consumption approach to the study of ethnicity and nationalism, thereby challenging the usual 'top down' approach to nation-formation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines examine the on-going consumption of minority and national cultures by looking at different forms of consumption, including a national lottery, theme parks, museums, cross-cultural handbooks, popular song and audio-visual media. Chapters span diverse parts of Asia '- from Korea, Japan and China to Malaysia and Sri Lanka '- imparting to the volume a rare comparative quality. It should appeal to anyone interested in Asian Studies, as well as in the sociology and anthropology of culture, nationalism and globalisation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoshino, Kosaku

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Rethinking theories of nationalism: Japan’s nationalism in a marketplace perspective 2 The nation consumed: buying and believing in Sri Lanka 3 Representing nationality in China: refiguring majority/ minority identities 4 Representing aborigines: modelling Taiwan’s ‘mountain culture’ 5 Peoples under glass: a tale of two museums 6 Consuming anthropology: the social sciences and nation-formation in Malaysia, 7 Distant Homelands: nation as place in Japanese popular song 8 Return to Asia?: Japan in Asian audiovisual markets

Über Autor(innen)

Kasaku Yoshino