The Monkey as Mirror : Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual /

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This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. During early periods of Japanese history the monkey's nearness to the human-animal boundary made it a revere...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Animals and civilization > Japan.
Buraku people.
Japanese culture > Sociological perspectives.
Monkeys > Social aspects > Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Azuma Kagami.
Buddhism.
Kojiki.
Mountain Deity.
Murasaki family.
Nihongi.
Oda Nobunaga.
Ouwehand, C.
Samson, G.
Sarumaru Tayū.
Shintoism.
agriculture.
ambiguity.
anomalous symbol.
catfish.
cultured monkeys.
dualism.
dualistic cosmology.
emotion.
eta hinin.
framing.
healing, meaning of.
hierarchy of meaning.
historical actors.
historical regularities.
human-animal relationship.
impurity.
indexicality.
inversion.
kawaramono.
laughter.
long-term study of culture.
marginals.
mirror.
multivocal symbols.
non-agrarian population.
nonresidents.
oxen.
performance.
pronouns.
radical negativity.
reflexive monkey.
reflexive symbol.
residents.
sansho.
scapegoat.
shomoji.
sign.
social position.
stranger-deity.
taboo.
trickster.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • A Note to the Reader
  • PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Theoretical Setting
  • 2. The Monkey as Metaphor for the Japanese
  • PART TWO MEANINGS THROUGH HISTORY
  • 3. The Monkey in Japanese Culture: Historical Transformations of Its Meaning
  • 4. The Special Status People in Japanese Society: Historical Transformations of Their Meaning
  • 5. The Monkey Performance: Historical Transformations of Its Meaning
  • 6. The Monkey and the Special Status People in the Reflexive Structure of the Japanese
  • PART THREE BASIC STRUCTURE, PROCESSUAL-CONTEXTUAL STRUCTURE, AND MULTIPLE STRUCTURES OF MEANING
  • 7. The Monkey Performance of the Late Medieval Period
  • 8. The Monkey Performance in Contemporary Japan
  • PART FOUR FROM THE MEDIATING MONKEY TO THE REFLEXIVE MONKEY: HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND RITUAL STRUCTURE
  • 9. Structures of Meaning in History, Myth, and Ritual
  • References
  • Index

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