Perspectives on social memory in Japan

書誌事項

Perspectives on social memory in Japan

edited by Tsu Yun Hui, Jan van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari

Global Oriental, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This collection of essays represents the first interdisciplinary study in English to consider social memory in Japan across a wide range of issues and phenomena. The volume examines a variety of memorialization subjects, including music and poetry, artefacts and tools, oral testimonies and written documents, ritual and ceremonies as well as art and artists.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Memory, Scholarship and the Study of Japan
  • Part 1: Remembering the Dead
  • 2. Monuments for the Untimely Dead or the Objectification of Social Memory in Japan
  • 3. Memorial Monuments of Interrupted Lives in Modern Japan: From Ex Post Facto Treatment to Intensification Devices
  • 4. Memorializing and Remembering Animals in Japan
  • 5. Coincident Events of Remembrance, Coexisting Spaces of Memory: The Annual Memorial Rites at Yasukuni Shrine
  • Part 2: Art of Memory
  • 6. Summer Grasses: Memory and the Construction of Landscape in Oku no Hosomichi
  • 7. What it Sounds Like to Lose an Empire: Happy End and the Kinks
  • 8. The Meiji Restoration and the Revival of Ancient Culture
  • 9. Japan's Living National Treasures Program: the Paradox of Remembering
  • Part 3: Remembering Nature
  • 10. Remembering the Wolf: The Wolf Reintroduction Campaign in Japan
  • 11. Preserving the Memories of Terror: Ko-be Earthquake Survivors as 'Memory Volunteers'
  • 12. The Violent and the Benign: How Kobe Remembers its Rivers
  • Part 4: Conclusion
  • 13. Social Memory and Commemoration: Some 'After the Fact' Thoughts
  • Index

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