Coffee Life in Japan

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-25933-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 240 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: California Studies in Food and Culture

This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White’s book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality, dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Merry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Preface
1. Coffee in Public: Cafe´s in Urban Japan
2. Japan’s Cafe´s: Coffee and the Counterintuitive
3. Modernity and the Passion Factory
4. Masters of Their Universes: Performing Perfection
5. Japan’s Liquid Power
6. Making Coffee Japanese: Taste in the Contemporary Cafe´
7. Urban Public Culture: Webs, Grids, and Third Places in Japanese Cities
8. Knowing Your Place
Appendix: Visits to Cafe´s, an Unreliable Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Merry White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and is the author of many books, including Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (UC Press) and The Japanese Overseas.