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 legitimacy.
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