Edo Cultural Voyage
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Edo Cultural Voyage
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Edo Cultural Voyage written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Bini (African people) categories.
Nigerian Film Culture And The Idea Of The Nation
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Author : Tsaaior, James Tar
language : en
Publisher: Adonis and Abbey Publishers
Release Date : 2017-09-17
Nigerian Film Culture And The Idea Of The Nation written by Tsaaior, James Tar and has been published by Adonis and Abbey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Collectively, the essays brought together in this book represent a discursive confluence on Nollywood as a local film culture with a global character, aspiration and reach. The governing concern of the book is that texts, including film texts, are animated by a particular sociology and anthropology which gives them concrete existence and meaning. The book argues that Nollywood, the Nigerian video film text, is deeply rooted in the sub-soil of its social and cultural milieux. Nollywood is therefore, engaged in the relentless negotiation and re-negotiation of the everyday lives of the people against the backdrop of their cultural traditions, social contradictions and the politics of their ethnic/national identity, longing and belonging. The essays weave an intricate and delicate argument about the critical role of Nollywood to the idea of nationhood and the logic of its narration with implications for language, politics and culture in Africa. The book is a valuable addition to the critical discourse on the important place of film and cinema studies in national engineering processes.
Edo Culture
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Author : Kazuo Nishiyama
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1997-04-01
Edo Culture written by Kazuo Nishiyama and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-01 with History categories.
Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western language. Edo Culture presents a selection of Nishiyama’s writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of the daily life and diversions of the urban populace of the time. Many essays focus on the most important theme of Nishiyama’s work: the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries as a time of appropriation and development of Japan’s culture by its urban commoners. In the first of three main sections, Nishiyama outlines the history of Edo (Tokyo) during the city’s formative years, showing how it was shaped by the constant interaction between its warrior and commoner classes. Next, he discusses the spirit and aesthetic of the Edo native and traces the woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e to the communal activities of the city’s commoners. Section two focuses on the interaction of urban and rural culture during the nineteenth century and on the unprecedented cultural diffusion that occurred with the help of itinerant performers, pilgrims, and touring actors. Among the essays is a delightful and detailed discourse on Tokugawa cuisine. The third section is dedicated to music and theatre, beginning with a study of no, which was patronized mainly by the aristocracy but surprisingly by commoners as well. In separate chapters, Nishiyama analyzes the relation of social classes to musical genres and the aesthetics of kabuki. The final chapter focuses on vaudeville houses supported by the urban masses.
Tour Of Duty
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Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2009-11-12
Tour Of Duty written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with History categories.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title Alternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603-1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of enforced elite mobility in world history. It required the daimyo to divide their time between their domains and the city of Edo, where they waited upon the Tokugawa shogun. Based on a prodigious amount of research in both published and archival primary sources, Tour of Duty renders alternate attendance as a lived experience, for not only the daimyo but also the samurai retainers who accompanied them. Beyond exploring the nature of travel to and from the capital as well as the period of enforced bachelorhood there, Constantine Vaporis elucidates-for the first time-the significance of alternate attendance as an engine of cultural, intellectual, material, and technological exchange. Vaporis argues against the view that cultural change simply emanated from the center (Edo) and reveals more complex patterns of cultural circulation and production taking place between the domains and Edo and among distant parts of Japan. What is generally known as "Edo culture" in fact incorporated elements from the localities. In some cases, Edo acted as a nexus for exchange; at other times, culture traveled from one area to another without passing through the capital. As a result, even those who did not directly participate in alternate attendance experienced a world much larger than their own. Vaporis begins by detailing the nature of the trip to and from the capital for one particular large-scale domain, Tosa, and its men and goes on to analyze the political and cultural meanings of the processions of the daimyo and their extensive entourages up and down the highways. These parade-like movements were replete with symbolic import for the nature of early modern governance. Later chapters are concerned with the physical and social environment experienced by the daimyo's retainers in Edo; they also address the question of who went to Edo and why, the network of physical spaces in which the domainal samurai lived, the issue of staffing, political power, and the daily lives and consumption habits of retainers. Finally, Vaporis examines retainers as carriers of culture, both in a literal and a figurative sense. In doing so, he reveals the significance of travel for retainers and their identity as consumers and producers of culture, thus proposing a multivalent model of cultural change.
A Reader In Edo Period Travel
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Author : Herbert E. Plutschow
language : en
Publisher: Global Oriental
Release Date : 2006
A Reader In Edo Period Travel written by Herbert E. Plutschow and has been published by Global Oriental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers. This important research on how the Japanese discovered their own country and cultural identity has considerable interdisciplinary appeal.
Intersections
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Author : Laura Nenz Detto Nenzi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Intersections written by Laura Nenz Detto Nenzi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Japan categories.
Audience Reception Of Benin Cinema In Nigeria
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Author : Osakue Stevenson Omoera
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-19
Audience Reception Of Benin Cinema In Nigeria written by Osakue Stevenson Omoera and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with Performing Arts categories.
This book signposts Benin (Edo) cinema as one of the vibrant new frontiers in the performing arts of Nigeria, underscoring this with critical empirical evidence. It is among the pioneering studies in this area of media production in African indigenous popular culture. In a very concrete sense, Benin cinema is a contemporary visual encyclopedia of Benin culture that can be used to consolidate the relevance of indigenous language films in Nigeria as a potential tool for national integration and international cultural diplomacy. The book interrogates the Benin-speaking audience’s reception of Benin films in Nollywood, covering both its history and its robust filmography, which is largely unexplored in present African film and media literature. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of film, theatre arts, mass communication, cultural studies, and African studies will find it an invaluable companion. Film and media studies scholars, global Nollywood practitioners, cultural archivists, and organizers of film festivals and book fairs will also find it useful.
Kansai Cool
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Author : Christal Whelan
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-25
Kansai Cool written by Christal Whelan and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Travel categories.
In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland. Kansai—the region in Western Japan that boasts the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, the bustling commercial city of Osaka and the cosmopolitan port city of Kobe—has a character all its own, right down to its dialect, mannerisms, and cuisine. It is home to some of Japan's oldest history and an area where the country's most time-honored arts and crafts still thrive. Worldly and otherworldly, spirited and spiritual, trendy and traditional, it's a place where past and future live side-by-side, sometimes at odds. Part Japanese travel book, part cultural commentary, these 25 spirited essays and 32 pages of color photos paint a broad yet penetrating portrait of the unique Western Japan region, covering such diverse topics as: The needs of the spirit—shrines, temples and the call to pilgrimage The arts in Kansai—dance, painting, anime, and combat The relationship between hi-tech and old-tech Material culture—bikes, robots, and dolls The culture of fashion in Kansai—from kimonos and obis to modern fashion designers, and the Lolita complex The meaning of landscape— human-made islands and the mystical power of water The hidden meaning of food—an anthropology of coffee and traditional cuisine From the deep-seated ancient beliefs of Kyoto to modern teen otaku culture, costume play and haute couture of Kobe and Osaka—Whelan delves below the surface to let readers eager to travel to Japan experience how art, science, faith and history swirl together in the Kansai region to produce this unique wellspring of Japanese culture.
Biudiscourse
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Biudiscourse written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Arts categories.
The Cultural Dimensions Of Sino Japanese Relations
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Author : Joshua A. Fogel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-04-29
The Cultural Dimensions Of Sino Japanese Relations written by Joshua A. Fogel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-29 with Political Science categories.
Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of each other, and the information that helped to fuel those perceptions. There are two sections: China in Japan, debating the Asiatic Mode of Production and kyodotai; and Japan in China, covering the Manchurian Railway.