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Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto - Claiming a Right to the Past (Hardcover)
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Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto - Claiming a Right to the Past (Hardcover)
Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
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As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the
nation's most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a
unique place in the Japanese imagination. Widely praised for the
beauty of its townscape and natural environments, it is both a
popular destination for tourists and home to one and a half million
inhabitants. There has been a sustained, lively debate about how
best to develop the city, with a large number of local government
officials, citizen activists, urban planners, real-estate
developers, architects, builders, proprietors, academic
researchers, and ordinary Kyotoites involved in discussions,
forming a highly peculiar social arena that has no match elsewhere
in Japan. This book, based on extensive fieldwork and interviews,
provides an ethnographic study of this particular social field. It
analyses how people in Kyoto deal with their most cherished
traditions, such as the traditional town houses and the famous Gion
matsuri festival, which calls into question several of the standard
social scientific assumptions about the functions of cultural
heritage for present-day societies. The book looks at the way
concerned citizens, government bureaucrats, and other important
players interact with each other over contentious modern buildings,
often with the best intentions but constrained by set role
expectations and by the superior power of national-level
regulations and agencies. This book contributes to debates on the
social uses of tradition and heritage, and the question of how to
create sustainable, liveable urban environments.
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