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This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his family. Officially dissolved in 1947, this group of social elites is still generally perceived as nobility. Lebra gained entry into this tightly knit circle and conducted more than one hundred interviews with its members. She has woven together a reconstructive ethnography from their life histories to create an intimate portrait of a remote and archaic world.
As Lebra explores the culture of the kazoku, she places each subject in its historical context. She analyzes the evolution of status boundaries and the indispensable role played by outsiders.
But this book is not simply about the elite. It is also about commoners and how each stratum mirrors the other. Revealing previously unobserved complexities in Japanese society, it also sheds light on the universal problem of social stratification.
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Takie Sugiyama Lebra is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She is the author of Japanese Women: Constraint and Fulfillment (1984) and Japanese Patterns of Behavior (1976).
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"Anyone who passes up this book on the assumption that it deals with a population best forgotten or that its appeal is limited to those with antiquarian interests is badly mistaken. . . . Do not fail to read this book for you will learn much about both the vanished world of its title and contemporary Japanese society." -- Robert J. Smith, Monumenta Nipponica
"Compelling. . . . Full of information and unforgettable anecdotes. . . . A major contribution to the study of Japanese society and history." -- Mark Morris, Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0520076001
- ISBN 13 9780520076006
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages430
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