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Coffee life in Japan /
"This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | California studies in food and culture ;
36. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Coffee in public : cafés in urban Japan
- Japan's cafés : coffee and the counter-intuitive
- Modernity and the passion factory
- Masters of their universes : performing perfection
- Japan's liquid power
- Making coffee Japanese : taste in the contemporary café
- Urban public culture : Webs, grids, and third places in Japanese cities
- Knowing your place
- Visits to cafés, an unreliable guide.