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Japanese and Americans : Cultural Parallels and Paradoxes

Long periods of residence, study, and teaching in Japan have given Professor Cleaver an opportunity to observe its culture and to compare it with that of the United States, where he is a specialist in American studies. He reaches the conclusion that differences in the two cultures have been emphasiz...

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Autor principal: Cleaver, Charles Grinnell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1976.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a CHAPTER 1 The Problem: Stereotypes (Self-Imposed and Otherwise), "National Character," and Paradox; CHAPTER 2 The Wilderness Zion and the Land of the Gods; CHAPTER 3 The "Crass Materialists" and the "Economic Animals, "; CHAPTER 4 The Old Environment: Nature; CHAPTER 5 Workaday and Holiday; CHAPTER 6 Fiction and the Popular Imagination; CHAPTER 7 Shelter and Symbol; CHAPTER 8 The Nurture of the Young; CHAPTER 9 In Concluding; EPILOGUE: "Same Difference, "; By Way of Bibliography; Notes; Index. 
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