New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)

New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)

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Book Description
This volume of proceedings from the Conference on Meiji Studies presents a rare multinational interchange among professors, researchers, and graduate students investigating Japan. The essays reflect both an appreciation of past scholarship and a determination to destabilize existing paradigms about Meiji Japan in favor of a multiplicity of perspectives that privilege subjectivity and non-elite groups. Attention to relations of power challenges the notions of modernization as the master narrative in Japan's recent history and of consensus as the primary characteristic of social interaction in Japan. The authors present an array of intellectual perspective on topics in the social sciences, humanities, and arts, employing a variety of theories and methodologies. The book will be welcomed by readers interested in the Meiji era, contemporary Japan, and postmodern theories of power.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: English, Chinese, French, Korean, Japanese

New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (Brill's Japanese Studies Library),Conference on Meiji Studies (1994 Harvard University),Helen Hardacre,Adam Kern,Brill Academic Publishers,9004107355,1868-,1868-1912,Arts, Japanese,Asia - Japan,Civilization,General,History - General History,History: World,Interior Design - General,Japan,Japan - History,Social Science,Sociology,Study and teaching

Book Contents:

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2. One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law (Ancient Mediterranean and Medieval Texts and Contexts, 2)
3. Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia: The Poetry of Ad-Dindan : A Bedouin Bard in Southern Najd (Studies in Arabic Literature, Vol 17)
4. Pan-Islamism: Indian Muslims, the Ottomans and Britain (1877-1924) (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage - Politics, Society and Economy , No 12)
5. Paul's Glory-Christology: Tradition and Rhetoric (Supplements to Novum Testamentum)
6. Pelagonius and Latin Veterinary Terminology in the Roman Empire (Studies in Ancient Medicine, Vol 11)
7. Philo and the Church Fathers: A Collection of Papers (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Vol 32)
8. Preventive Strategies on Suicide (Advances in Suicidology)
9. Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East (Writings from the Ancient World)
10. Qusta Ibn Luqa's Medical Regime for the Pilgrims to Mecca: The Risala Fi Tadbir Safar Al-Hajj (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)

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