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Making tea, making Japan : cultural nationalism in practice / Kristin Surak.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xx, 253, pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0804784795
  • 9780804784795
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making tea, making Japan.DDC classification:
  • 394.1/5 23
LOC classification:
  • GT2910 .S854 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Preparing tea : spaces, objects, performances -- Creating tea : the national transformation of a cultural practice -- Selling tea : an anatomy of the iemoto system -- Enacting tea : doing and demonstrating Japaneseness -- Beyond the tea room : toward a praxeology of nationness and nationalism.
Summary: The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preparing tea : spaces, objects, performances -- Creating tea : the national transformation of a cultural practice -- Selling tea : an anatomy of the iemoto system -- Enacting tea : doing and demonstrating Japaneseness -- Beyond the tea room : toward a praxeology of nationness and nationalism.

The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here.

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