Hegemony of Homogeneity: An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron

ISBN-13: 9781876843052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 195 str.

Harumi Befu

Opis

Nihonjinron is the Japanese term for Japanese national character, or the way the Japanese characterize themselves. Befu, a bilingual anthropologist who has studied Japan for 40 years, examines hundreds of original Japanese sources, and argues that Nihonjinron is a civil religion for the Japanese and