234 pp. August 1999
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-2248-4, $24.00
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-2247-7, $46.00
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Consuming Ethnicity and Nationalism: Asian Experiences
ed. by Kosaku Yoshino
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“Consuming Ethnicity provides interesting new approaches to the interrelationship of culture and nationalism.” —Multicultural Review, June 2000
This book is unique in applying a consumption approach to the study of ethnicity and nationalism, thereby challenging the usual “top down” approach to nation-formation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines examine the on-going consumption of minority and national cultures by looking at different forms of consumption, including a national lottery, theme parks, museums, cross-cultural handbooks, popular song, and audio-visual media. Chapters span diverse parts of Asia-from Korea, Japan, and China to Malaysia and Sri Lanka-imparting to the volume a rare comparative quality. Contributors: Dru C. Gladney, Shih-chung Hsieh, Koichi Iwabuchi, Steven Kemper, Laurel Kendall, Shamsul A. B., Christine R. Yano, Kosaku Yoshino. For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico.
Kosaku Yoshino is associate professor of sociology at the University of Tokyo.
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