Perspectives on social memory in Japan
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Perspectives on social memory in Japan
Global Oriental, 2005
Available at 19 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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