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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
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Civilization and Monsters : Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Condition: New.
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Civilization and Monsters
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, US, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Seller: Rarewaves.com USA, London, LONDO, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: New. Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity-that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912).After discussing the role of the fantastic in everyday Japan at the eve of the Meiji period, Figal draws new connections between folklorists, writers, educators, state ideologues, and policymakers, all of whom crossed paths in a contest over supernatural terrain. He shows the ways in which a determined Meiji state was engaged in a battle to suppress, denigrate, manipulate, or reincorporate folk belief as part of an effort toward the consolidation of a modern national culture. Modern medicine and education, functioning as a means for the state to exercise its power, redefined folk practices as a source of evil. Diverse local spirits were supplanted by a new Japanese Spirit, embodied by the newly constituted emperor, the supernatural source of the nation's strength. The monsters of folklore were identified, catalogued, and characterized according to a new regime of modern reason. But whether engaged to support state power and forge a national citizenry or to critique the arbitrary nature of that power, the fantastic, as Figal maintains, is the constant condition of Japanese modernity in all its contradictions. Furthermore, he argues, modernity in general is born of fantasy in ways that have scarcely been recognized. Bringing unexplored and provocative new ideas to the Japan specialist, Civilization and Monsters will also appeal to readers concerned with issues of modernity in general.
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Civilization and Monsters : Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822323842 ISBN 13: 9780822323846
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (eng)
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Condition: new.
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Civilization and Monsters - Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by MD - Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
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Civilization and Monsters
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Condition: New. pp. 304 4 Figures.
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0822323842 ISBN 13: 9780822323846
Seller: Windows Booksellers, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter and stamp to lower edge of text. Otherwise pristine 290 pp.
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Civilization and Monsters : Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
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Condition: New.
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: New. Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. This title asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912). Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516. . 2000. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . .
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
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Civilization and Monsters : Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Paperback or Softback)
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press 1/17/2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan. Book.
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Condition: New. Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. This title asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912). Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516. . 2000. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Civilization and Monsters
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Condition: New. pp. 304.
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Civilization and Monsters Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan.
Published by 1st ed Duke University Press Durham, 1999
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Small royal8vo, xi, 290 p. Original pictorial light card covers. A fine copy. First edition.
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Civilization and Monsters. Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan.
Published by Duke University Press Durham and London 1999, 1999
290 p 23,5 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Muy bien.
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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Beacheads (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
Book 20 of 40: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesLanguage: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
ISBN 10: 1442215828 ISBN 13: 9781442215825
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
£ 48.75
£ 11.98 shipping
Ships from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketCondition: New. In.
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Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa
Book 20 of 40: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesLanguage: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2016
ISBN 10: 1442215828 ISBN 13: 9781442215825
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 259 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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Civilization and Monsters
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, US, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822324180 ISBN 13: 9780822324188
Paperback. Condition: New. Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In Civilization and Monsters Gerald Figal asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity-that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912).After discussing the role of the fantastic in everyday Japan at the eve of the Meiji period, Figal draws new connections between folklorists, writers, educators, state ideologues, and policymakers, all of whom crossed paths in a contest over supernatural terrain. He shows the ways in which a determined Meiji state was engaged in a battle to suppress, denigrate, manipulate, or reincorporate folk belief as part of an effort toward the consolidation of a modern national culture. Modern medicine and education, functioning as a means for the state to exercise its power, redefined folk practices as a source of evil. Diverse local spirits were supplanted by a new Japanese Spirit, embodied by the newly constituted emperor, the supernatural source of the nation's strength. The monsters of folklore were identified, catalogued, and characterized according to a new regime of modern reason. But whether engaged to support state power and forge a national citizenry or to critique the arbitrary nature of that power, the fantastic, as Figal maintains, is the constant condition of Japanese modernity in all its contradictions. Furthermore, he argues, modernity in general is born of fantasy in ways that have scarcely been recognized. Bringing unexplored and provocative new ideas to the Japan specialist, Civilization and Monsters will also appeal to readers concerned with issues of modernity in general.
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Beachheads
Book 20 of 40: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesLanguage: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2012
ISBN 10: 144221581X ISBN 13: 9781442215818
Condition: New. pp. 276.
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Beachheads
Book 20 of 40: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesLanguage: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2012
ISBN 10: 144221581X ISBN 13: 9781442215818
Condition: New. pp. 276.
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Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa
Book 20 of 40: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesLanguage: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
ISBN 10: 1442215828 ISBN 13: 9781442215825
Condition: New. This compelling book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semi-colonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious politics has reshaped itself into a resort destination. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 276 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTJ; HBJF; HBWQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398. . 2016. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Beachheads
Book 20 of 40: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesLanguage: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2012
ISBN 10: 144221581X ISBN 13: 9781442215818
Condition: New. pp. 276.
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Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa
Book 20 of 40: Asia/Pacific/PerspectivesLanguage: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
ISBN 10: 1442215828 ISBN 13: 9781442215825
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: New. This compelling book explores Okinawa's makeover as a tourist mecca among the physical ruins of the Pacific War's most devastating land battle. Gerald Figal considers how a place burdened by a history of semi-colonialism, memories of war and occupation, economic hardship, and contentious politics has reshaped itself into a resort destination. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 276 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 22 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; GTJ; HBJF; HBWQ; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 21. Weight in Grams: 398. . 2016. Reprint. Paperback. . . . .
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Book 6 of 49: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and SocietyLanguage: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0822323842 ISBN 13: 9780822323846
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardback. Condition: Good. Used copy in good condition - Usually dispatched within 3 working days.
