In the long years taken up by this study, I have come into debt to countless people. Foremost, I am grateful to the former aristocrats and those around them who allowed me to share their experiences as an interviewer, guest, or semiparticipant observer of their rituals and other activities. Without their willing cooperation this project could not have been undertaken. Alas, these individuals must remain nameless, as they were promised. Many of my Japanese colleagues and friends, including my Gakushuin classmates, assisted me as introducers of informants or as informants themselves. Special thanks are due to Ms. Inukai Tomoko for her continuous generosity with time and knowledge. Gakushuin University was a host institution twice, providing me with an office and library privileges, as well as an opportunity to present a working paper at a seminar of its Oriental Culture Research Institute. I want to thank Hayashi Tomoharu and Tanaka Yasumasa for these arrangements. Among other helpers are Hashimoto Akira, Ishimoto Noriko, Matsumoto Masako, Ide Sachiko, Kuno Susumu, and the late Hara Tadahiko.Back in the United States, my work on this book was supplemented by paper presentations at the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies and the American Anthropological Association. I was also an invited speaker on the subject at the University of Toronto, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, the College of William and Mary, and Pepperdine University. More than once, I spoke at seminars of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii. Responses from my audience on each occasion inspired and guided my further writing.
It was my honor and good fortune to have two eminent scholars, in history and anthropology respectively, read an earlier draft of this book.
The erudite Marius Jansen alerted me to some errors in my historical presentations and interpretations and offered suggestions to improve the manuscript. William Kelly made invaluable comments that will help the book appeal not merely to Japan specialists but to other social science readers outside the Japan area. I am grateful not only for the critical suggestions but also for the warm encouragement that both gave me. I did my best to assimilate their suggestions; nevertheless, any inevitably remaining flaws are entirely my responsibility.
To be mentioned are a number of students who assisted me with library search, photocopying, filing, and coding, among them Usui Hiroko, Watanabe Eri, Suzuki Nobue, Yoshino Junko, and Frances Yuasa. James Roberson, a doctoral candidate, helped me as more than a student assistant, by exercising his professional judgment in collecting and abstracting relevant literature for me.
During the lengthy period of research I received several grants, which I gratefully acknowledge. Benefactors were the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, the Japan Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the University of Hawaii (through the Japan Studies Endowment Fund and the Presidential Scholar Award).
Some chapters partly overlap previously published journal articles. Portions of chapter 4 appeared in "Adoption Among the Hereditary Elite of Japan: Status Preservation Through Mobility," Ethnology 28 (1989): 185-218. The first part of chapter 7 is from "The Socialization of Aristocratic Children by Commoners: Recalled Experiences of the Hereditary Elite in Modern Japan," Cultural Anthropology 5 (1990): 78-100. The last section of chapter 8 repeats the content of "Resurrecting Ancestral Charisma: Aristocratic Descendants in Contemporary Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 17 (1991): 59-78. And part of chapter 5 appeared as "The Spatial Layout of Hierarchy: Residential Style of the Modern Japanese Nobility," in a collection of essays edited by myself, Japanese Social Organization (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992). Thanks go to these publishers for permitting reproduction.
The late William P. Lebra inspired this study initially: he was excited by the subject matter, convinced me of its worthiness, and wrote me faithful responses to my "reports" from the field. As a token of my heartfelt appreciation, this book is dedicated to the memory of Bill.
For various phases of processing the manuscript into publishable form, I owe much to the University of California Press staff, particularly Jeanne Sugiyama, Sheila Levine, Monica McCormick, Betsey Scheiner, and Dore
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It was my honor and good fortune to have two eminent scholars, in history and anthropology respectively, read an earlier draft of this book.
The erudite Marius Jansen alerted me to some errors in my historical presentations and interpretations and offered suggestions to improve the manuscript. William Kelly made invaluable comments that will help the book appeal not merely to Japan specialists but to other social science readers outside the Japan area. I am grateful not only for the critical suggestions but also for the warm encouragement that both gave me. I did my best to assimilate their suggestions; nevertheless, any inevitably remaining flaws are entirely my responsibility.
To be mentioned are a number of students who assisted me with library search, photocopying, filing, and coding, among them Usui Hiroko, Watanabe Eri, Suzuki Nobue, Yoshino Junko, and Frances Yuasa. James Roberson, a doctoral candidate, helped me as more than a student assistant, by exercising his professional judgment in collecting and abstracting relevant literature for me.
During the lengthy period of research I received several grants, which I gratefully acknowledge. Benefactors were the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, the Japan Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the University of Hawaii (through the Japan Studies Endowment Fund and the Presidential Scholar Award).
Some chapters partly overlap previously published journal articles. Portions of chapter 4 appeared in "Adoption Among the Hereditary Elite of Japan: Status Preservation Through Mobility," Ethnology 28 (1989): 185-218. The first part of chapter 7 is from "The Socialization of Aristocratic Children by Commoners: Recalled Experiences of the Hereditary Elite in Modern Japan," Cultural Anthropology 5 (1990): 78-100. The last section of chapter 8 repeats the content of "Resurrecting Ancestral Charisma: Aristocratic Descendants in Contemporary Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies 17 (1991): 59-78. And part of chapter 5 appeared as "The Spatial Layout of Hierarchy: Residential Style of the Modern Japanese Nobility," in a collection of essays edited by myself, Japanese Social Organization (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992). Thanks go to these publishers for permitting reproduction.
The late William P. Lebra inspired this study initially: he was excited by the subject matter, convinced me of its worthiness, and wrote me faithful responses to my "reports" from the field. As a token of my heartfelt appreciation, this book is dedicated to the memory of Bill.
For various phases of processing the manuscript into publishable form, I owe much to the University of California Press staff, particularly Jeanne Sugiyama, Sheila Levine, Monica McCormick, Betsey Scheiner, and Dore
INFO BUKU
Judul : Above the Clouds Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility
Jenis : Softcopy (bentuk file dalam CD)
Harga : Rp. 3.000,- (Tiga ribu rupiah)
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