Bonds of Civility Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture

Name: Bonds of Civility Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
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ISBN: 9780521601153

ISBN-10: 0521601150

ISBN-13: 9780521601153

Edition: 2005

Authors: Eiko Ikegami, Mark Granovetter

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Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history of social life in which aesthetic images are central to Japan's cultural identities. Combining sociological insights in organizations with prodigious scholarship on cultural history, this book explores such wide-ranging topics as networks of performing arts, tea ceremony and haiku, the politics of kimono aesthetics, the rise of commercial publishing, the popularization of etiquette and manners, the vogue for androgyny in kabuki performance, and the rise of tacit modes of communication.

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.02" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Eiko Ikegami is Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University.




A Social Theory of State, Civility and Publics: Introduction: aesthetic Japan and the Tokugawa Network Revolution



Civility without civil society: a comparative overview



Culture and identity as emergent properties in networks: a theoretical overview



The Transformation of Associational and the Rise of Aesthetic Publics



The medieval origin of aesthetic publics: linked poetry and the ritual logic of freedom



The Late Medieval transformation of Za arts in struggles between vertical and horizontal alliances



Tokugawa state formation and the transformation of aesthetic publics



The rise of aesthetic civility



The Haikai, network poetry: the politics of border crossing and subversion



Poetry and protest: the rise of social power



Tacit modes of communication and their contribution to Japanese national identities



Market, State, and Categorical Politics



Categorical protest from the floating world: fashion, state and gender



The information revolution: Japanese commercial publishing and styles of proto-modernity



Hierarchical civility and beauty: etiquette and manners in Tokugawa manuals



Concluding Reflections



The rise of aesthetic Japan


Epilogue: toward a pluralistic view of communication styles


Endnotes


List of illustrations