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The State Bearing Gifts - Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education (Paperback)
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The State Bearing Gifts - Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education (Paperback)
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Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J.
McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the
Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one
eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices,
he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key
concepts of 'value, ' 'exchange, ' and 'role performance' by
studying how political economy configures dramatization and
deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic
participant observation and the notion of the 'gift, ' McVeigh
challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for
understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a
political and philosophical commentary and anthropological
investigation, this work has theoretical implications for
comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding
the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture
of legitima
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