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In the vastness of Tokyo these are tiny social units, and by the standards that most Americans would apply, they are perhaps far too small, geographically and demographically, to be considered "neighborhoods." Still, to residents of Tokyo and particularly to the residents of any given subsection of the city, they are socially significant and geographically distinguishable divisions of the urban landscape. In neighborhoods such as these, overlapping and intertwining associations and institutions provide an elaborate and enduring framework for local social life, within which residents are linked to one another not only through their participation in local organizations, but also through webs of informal social, economic, and political ties. This book is an ethnographic analysis of the social fabric and internal dynamics of one such neighborhood: Miyamoto-cho, a pseudonym for a residential and commercial district in Tokyo where the author carried out fieldwork from June 1979 to May 1981, and during several summers since. It is a study of the social construction and maintenance of a neighborhood in a society where such communities are said to be outmoded, even antithetical to the major trends of modernization and social change that have transformed Japan in the last hundred years. It is a study not of tradition as an aspect of historical continuity, but of traditionalism: the manipulation, invention, and recombination of cultural patterns, symbols, and motifs so as to legitimate contemporary social realities by imbuing them with a patina of venerable historicity. It is a study of often subtle and muted struggles between insiders and outsiders over those most ephemeral of the community's resources, its identity and sense of autonomy, enacted in the seemingly insubstantial idioms of cultural tradition.

Neighborhoods --- Tokyo (Japan) --- Social conditions --- Alltag. --- Nachbarschaft. --- Neighborhoods. --- Quartiers (Urbanisme) --- Seikatsukankyō. --- Social conditions. --- Sociale situatie. --- Stadswijken. --- Stadtviertel. --- Tōkyōto --- Vie urbaine --- Wohnen. --- quartier (urbanisme) --- Fūzokushūkan. --- Shakai. --- Japan --- Tokio --- Tokio. --- Tōkyō (Japon) --- Condiciones sociales --- Conditions sociales. --- Tokyo (Japon) --- Conditions sociales --- J4190.12 --- J4192 --- J4000.90 --- J3411.10 --- Neighborhood --- -Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Kantō -- Tōkyō 23 ward area (Edo) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- urban groups, the city --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Kantō -- Tōkyō 23 wards area (Edo) --- -Tokyo (Japan : Prefecture) --- Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Japan) --- Tonggyŏng (Japan) --- Tokio (Japan) --- Tʻokʻyoo (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu (Japan) --- Tung-ching tu tʻing (Japan) --- Tōkyō-shi (Japan) --- Tung-ching (Japan) --- Dongjing (Japan) --- 東京 (Japan) --- Tokyo Metropolis (Japan) --- 東京都 (Japan) --- Tōkyō-to (Japan) --- طوكيو (Japan) --- Ṭūkiyū (Japan) --- Горад Токіа (Japan) --- Horad Tokia (Japan) --- Токіа (Japan) --- Tokia (Japan) --- Токио (Japan) --- Edo (Japan) --- Shinagawa-ken (Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan : Fu) --- -J4190.12 --- -東京 (Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan : Prefecture) --- 동경 (Japan) --- Dongjing du (Japan) --- Dongjing du ting (Japan) --- 东京 (Japan) --- Toukio (Japan) --- -Neighborhoods --- -Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- local communities and culture -- Kantō -- Tōkyō 23 ward area (Edo) --- -Social conditions --- -Alltag. --- Neighborhoods - Japan - Tokyo --- Tokyo (Japan) - Social conditions --- -Neighborhoods - Japan - Tokyo --- -Tokyo (Japan)

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The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society is an interdisciplinary resource that focuses on contemporary Japan and the social and cultural trends that are important at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This Handbook provides a cutting-edge and comprehensive survey of significant phenomena, institutions, and directions in Japan today, on issues ranging from gender and family, the environment, race and ethnicity, and urban life, to popular culture and electronic media. Written by an international team of Japan experts, the chapters included in the volume form an accessible and fascinating insight into Japanese culture and society. As such, the Handbook will be an invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in all things Japanese. Students, teachers and professionals alike will benefit from the braid ranging discussions, useful links to online resources and suggested reading lists.

J4140.90 --- J4100 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Sociology, anthropology and culture in general --- -21st century. --- J4000.90 --- J4143 --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture --- Japan --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japon --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Nipponkoku --- Nippon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nihon-koku --- State of Japan --- Япония --- Japani --- اليابان --- al-Yābān --- يابان --- Yābān --- Japonsko --- Giappone --- Japonia --- Japonya --- Civilization --- Social conditions --- Civilisation --- Conditions sociales --- J4150.90 --- J4600.90 --- J4900.90 --- J1700.90 --- J4170 --- J4176.10 --- J4200.80 --- J4204.10 --- J4203 --- J6850 --- J6900.90 --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Education -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Religion in general -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- family --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social classes and groups, social systems and discrimination -- history --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- age groups -- children, infants --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- outcasts, burakumin, hinin --- Japan: Games, toys and hobbies --- Japan: Sports and recreation -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Civilization. --- Social history. --- 2000-2099. --- Japan. --- Japan - Civilization - 21st century --- Japan - Social conditions - 21st century --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс

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