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Bonds of Civility - Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (Paperback, New)
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Bonds of Civility - Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (Paperback, New)
Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
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In this path breaking book, Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history
of social life in which aesthetic images became central to Japan's
cultural identities. The people of premodern Japan built on earlier
aesthetic traditions in part for their own sake, but also to find
space for self-expression in the increasingly rigid and tightly
controlled Tokugawa political system. In so doing, they
incorporated the world of the beautiful within their social life
which led to new modes of civility. They explored horizontal and
voluntary ways of associating while immersing themselves in
aesthetic group activities. Combining sociological insights in
organizations with prodigious scholarship on cultural history, this
book explores such wide-ranging topics as networks of performing
arts, tea ceremony and haiku, the politics of kimono aesthetics,
the rise of commercial publishing, the popularization of etiquette
and manners, the vogue for androgyny in kabuki performance, and the
rise of tacit modes of communication.
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