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Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the idol, an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 7/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780674017733, 978-0674017733
      ISBN10: 0674017730
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      Book Synopsis
      Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the idol, an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.

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