Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism: Asian Experiences

ISBN-13: 9780700711895 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 202 str.

Kosaku Yoshino

Opis

This text applies a consumption approach to the study of ethnicity and nationalism, thereby challenging the usual top down approach to nation-formation. Contributors look at different forms of consumption, including the national lottery, theme parks, museums, cross-cultural handbooks, pop songs and audio-visual material. Chapters span diverse parts of Asia, from Korea, Japan and China to Malaysia and Sri Lanka.

Sheds new light on the issues of ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation in the context of Asia, blending theories with empirical material. This volume offers not only a wealth of historical and empirical detail, but also, most importantly, a fresh perspective, and a debunking of a number of myths about Asia.

Recenzje

'A wide-ranging collection of essays an interesting collection of some Asian experiences, rich in exploring varied ethnographic forms. of considerable value' - Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

'The strength of this new book lies in the variety of approaches and case-studies ... several of these chapters are fascinating.' - School of Oriental & African Studies

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Kasaku Yoshino