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Islands of Eight Million Smiles Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan

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Auteur:	Aoyagi, Hiroshi
Titel:	Islands of Eight Million Smiles Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan
Uitgever:	Harvard University, Asia
ISBN:	9780674017733
Serie:	Harvard East Asian Monographs
Land van oorsprong:	United States
Prijs:	€ 62.93
Verschijningsdatum:	15-07-2005
Bericht:	Leverbaar

Inhoudelijke kenmerken

Categorie:	Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Geogr.gebied:	Japan
Geillustreerd:	23 illustrations
Dewey code:	781.6408350952

Technische kenmerken

Verschijningsvorm:	Hardback
Paginas:	656
Hoogte mm.:	162
Breedte mm.:	239
Dikte mm.:	25
Gewicht gr.:	592

Inhoud:

Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the âidol,â an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.