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This text focuses on Japanese weddings as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between the commercialization of these services and their symbolic content. Weddings mark the attainment of full adult status in Japan and this book looks at what marriage and adulthood means in Japan.

Table of Contents
Introduction 1. The performance 2. Background 3. The actors 4. The stage and its managers 5. Imaging the marital ideal 6. Gender, person, and society Conclusion Notes Index.

Modern Japan Through Its Weddings

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/1989
      ISBN13: 9780804715126, 978-0804715126
      ISBN10: 0804715122

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text focuses on Japanese weddings as a window on contemporary values, analyzing the relation between the commercialization of these services and their symbolic content. Weddings mark the attainment of full adult status in Japan and this book looks at what marriage and adulthood means in Japan.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. The performance 2. Background 3. The actors 4. The stage and its managers 5. Imaging the marital ideal 6. Gender, person, and society Conclusion Notes Index.

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