Assembling Japan focuses on Japan s modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation s full engagement with the global system. This process forms a complex field of tensions, full of interesting dynamisms and synergies that can be best understood through the book s methodology: anthropological analysis combined with historical contextualization. The approaches in this collection are manifold. Some chapters examine the themes of modernity, technology and Japan s global experience though popular culture, from reggae to...
Assembling Japan focuses on Japan s modernization as a long-term process that is reliant on changing technology and that has led to the nation ...