Examines what is called the Ceremonial Occasions industry in Japan, in particular the commercialized production of contemporary weddings there. Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in a wedding parlour.
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"The the practices of inventing and reinventing traditions, of self-exoticizing or even reverse Orientalization, represents an important contribution to the study of contemporary Japanese consumer society and its preoccupation with Japaneseness."
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- PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0824819543
- ISBN 13 9780824819545
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216