Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto write by Christoph Brumann. This book was released on 2012. Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kyoto is both a popular destination for tourists and home to one and a half million inhabitants. There is lively debate about how best to develop the city, involving a variety of stakeholders, forming a particlar social arena that has no match elsewhere in Japan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book analyses the social tensions and conflicts about the built environment and the public cultural heritage in Kyoto.
Fashionable Traditions
Fashionable Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashionable Traditions write by Ayami Nakatani. This book was released on 2020-01-28. Fashionable Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the contributors to this collection demonstrate the multilayered influence of often contradictory forces. In-depth, ethnographic case studies reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers, while acknowledging the broader frameworks in which such relationships are situated. Together these stories offer a vivid account of the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics in various parts of Asia and emphasize that fashion is neither a Western prerogative nor do its roots reside solely in the West.
Hakata
Hakata - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hakata write by Andrew Cobbing. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Hakata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu, experts in various fields have collaborated to produce an interdisciplinary collection offering diverse insights on a region yet to be fully addressed in English. A historic port situated in a strategically vital region as the closest point of contact with the Asian continent, Hakata has long served as a key hub in the transcultural networks linking Japan with the outside world. This volume explores the rich legacy of these wider interactions, in particular the cosmopolitan, international dimension deeply embedded in Hakata's urban culture. With an identity all its own and quite distinct from other regions in Japan, it is a culture once again increasingly relevant in today's world of borderless communications.
Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change
Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change write by Deborah Sick. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Rural Livelihoods, Regional Economies, and Processes of Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ways. Millions of rural dwellers have found survival increasingly difficult and have fled to urban centres. Others have remained: some retrenching, struggling to just subsist, others attempting to innovatively redefine their place within ‘new’ rural economies. Over the past 30 years, rural economies have largely been ignored by policy makers, but recent growing concerns about food security, environmental degradation, climate change, continued rural poverty, and high rates of out-migration have sparked renewed interest in rural regions. Covering a range of geographical and socio-cultural contexts, the case studies in this book draw on actor-oriented in-depth field studies, which provide detailed, locally focused perspectives on the nature of rural livelihoods today. The collection highlights the ways in which rural livelihoods are being redefined, the multiple ways in which rural dwellers draw on distinct social, cultural and environmental resources to formulate their livelihood strategies, and the factors which facilitate or limit their abilities to do so. This volume will be of interest to development practitioners and policy makers, and scholars working in rural development and economic anthropology.
Kyoto's Gion Festival
Kyoto's Gion Festival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kyoto's Gion Festival write by Mark Teeuwen. This book was released on 2023-01-12. Kyoto's Gion Festival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on the long history of what is arguably the most prestigious and influential festival in Japan – Kyoto's Gion festival. It explores this history from the festival's origins in the late 10th century to its post-war revival, drawing on Japanese historical studies and archival materials as well as the author's participant observation fieldwork. Exploring the social and political networks that have kept this festival alive for over a millennium, this book reveals how it has endured multiple reinventions. In particular, it identifies how at each historical juncture, different groups have found new purposes for the festival and adapted this costly enterprise to suit their own ends. The history of this festival not only sheds light on the development of Japanese festival culture as a whole, but also offers a window on Kyoto's history and provides a testing ground for recent festival theory.
