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Contemporary urban Japan : a sociology of consumption /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clammer, J. R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
Series:Studies in urban and social change.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban > Japan.
City and town life > Japan.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > Japan.
Consumer behavior > Japan.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption
  • 2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City
  • 3. Context of Desire: The Political Economy of Consumption
  • 4. Shopping and the Social Self
  • 5. Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption
  • 6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body
  • 7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism
  • 8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan.