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Kamikaze Diaries
Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
210 kr
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We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives." So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. But the writings explored here by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney clearly and eloquently speak otherwise. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer, and in their diaries and correspondence they often wrote heartbreaking soliloquies in which they poured out their anguish and fear and expressed profound ambivalence toward the war as well as opposition to their nation's imperialism.A salutary correction to the many caricatures of the kamikaze, this poignant work will be essential to anyone interested in the history of Japan and World War II.
Culture Through Time
Anthropological Approaches
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
404 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Kamikaze Diaries
Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
463 kr
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We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives." So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. But the writings explored here by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney clearly and eloquently speak otherwise. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer, and in their diaries and correspondence they often wrote heartbreaking soliloquies in which they poured out their anguish and fear and expressed profound ambivalence toward the war as well as opposition to their nation's imperialism.A salutary correction to the many caricatures of the kamikaze, this poignant work will be essential to anyone interested in the history of Japan and World War II.
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
745 kr
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Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan''s tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honored Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honor to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men''s agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism, and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
336 kr
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Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student scholars" volunteer to serve in Japan's "tokkotai" (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? Did they embody the imperial ideology both in thought and in action? In this study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honoured Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honour to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan
An Anthropological View
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 1984
331 kr
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Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition - operates on several different levels. In this book Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney provides a detailed and historically informed account of the cultural practices and cultural meaning of health care in urban Japan. In contrast to most ethnomedical studies, this book pays careful attention to everyday hygienic practices and beliefs, as well as presenting a comprehensive picture of formalized medicine, health care aspects of Japanese religions, and biomedicine. These different systems compete with one another at some levels, but are complementary in providing health care to urban Japanese, who often use more than one system simultaneously. As an unequalled portrayal of health care in a modern industrial, but non-Western, setting, it will be of widespread interest to scholars and students of anthropology, medicine, and East Asian studies.
Rice as Self
Japanese Identities through Time
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
417 kr
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Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.
Monkey as Mirror
Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 1989
507 kr
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This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. During early periods of Japanese history the monkey's nearness to the human-animal boundary made it a revered mediator or an animal deity closest to humans. Later it became a scapegoat mocked for its vain efforts to behave in a human fashion. Modern Japanese have begun to see a new meaning in the monkey--a clown who turns itself into an object of laughter while challenging the basic assumptions of Japanese culture and society.
Monkey as Mirror
Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
698 kr
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This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the ''special status'' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. During early periods of Japanese history the monkey''s nearness to the human-animal boundary made it a revered mediator or an animal deity closest to humans. Later it became a scapegoat mocked for its vain efforts to behave in a human fashion. Modern Japanese have begun to see a new meaning in the monkey--a clown who turns itself into an object of laughter while challenging the basic assumptions of Japanese culture and society.
Culture Through Time
Anthropological Approaches
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
1 672 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
A Stanford University Press classic.
Flowers That Kill
Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
335 kr
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Flowers are beautiful. People often communicate their love, sorrow, and other feelings to each other by offering flowers, like roses. Flowers can also be symbols of collective identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning changes, perhaps as flowers are deployed by the state and dictators? Did people recognize that the roses they offered to Stalin and Hitler became a propaganda tool? Or were they like the Japanese, who, including the soldiers, did not realize when the state told them to fall like cherry blossoms, it meant their deaths?Flowers That Kill proposes an entirely new theoretical understanding of the role of quotidian symbols and their political significance to understand how they lead people, if indirectly, to wars, violence, and even self-exclusion and self-destruction precisely because symbolic communication is full of ambiguity and opacity. Using a broad comparative approach, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney illustrates how the aesthetic and multiple meanings of symbols, and at times symbols without images become possible sources for creating opacity which prevents people from recognizing the shifting meaning of the symbols.
Flowers That Kill
Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
403 kr
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Flowers are beautiful. People often communicate their love, sorrow, and other feelings to each other by offering flowers, like roses. Flowers can also be symbols of collective identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning changes, perhaps as flowers are deployed by the state and dictators? Did people recognize that the roses they offered to Stalin and Hitler became a propaganda tool? Or were they like the Japanese, who, including the soldiers, did not realize when the state told them to fall like cherry blossoms, it meant their deaths?Flowers That Kill proposes an entirely new theoretical understanding of the role of quotidian symbols and their political significance to understand how they lead people, if indirectly, to wars, violence, and even self-exclusion and self-destruction precisely because symbolic communication is full of ambiguity and opacity. Using a broad comparative approach, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney illustrates how the aesthetic and multiple meanings of symbols, and at times symbols without images become possible sources for creating opacity which prevents people from recognizing the shifting meaning of the symbols.
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu
A Symbolic Interpretation
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
463 kr
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Originally published in 1981, this book explores the issue of how a society understands human illness in the absence of a germ theory. This is done through an interpretation of the illness categories and healing practices of the Sakhalin Ainu, a hunting and gathering people resettled in Japan. The text illustrates how illnesses relate to the Ainu view of the universe and how their medical system is intimately interwoven with their moral cosmology and social networks. Even such minor ailments as headaches and boils are meticulously classified to mirror the classifications of such basic perceptual structures as space and time. With the Ainu medical system as an example, this book probes questions central to research in symbolic, medical and linguistic anthropology, structuralism, and the anthropology of women.
Rice as Self
Japanese Identities through Time
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
E-bok
Engelska, 1994
586 kr
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Are we what we eat? What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others? Why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others? In this engaging account of the crucial significance rice has for the Japanese, Rice as Self examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other peoples. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney traces the changing contours that the Japanese notion of the self has taken as different historical Others--whether Chinese or Westerner--have emerged, and shows how rice and rice paddies have served as the vehicle for this deliberation. Using Japan as an example, she proposes a new cross-cultural model for the interpretation of the self and other.
Representations of “Japanese Nature”
A Historical Overview
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 861 kr
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“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as “pristine” into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”. Much emphasis is given to the inhabitants demonstrating the dynamic characteristic of nature. As a study done over a long period of history, Representations of “Japanese Nature” shows the mutual support between conceptual principles of nature and the daily activities of the people .
Representations of “Japanese Nature”
A Historical Overview
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
444 kr
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“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as “pristine” into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”. Much emphasis is given to the inhabitants demonstrating the dynamic characteristic of nature. As a study done over a long period of history, Representations of “Japanese Nature” shows the mutual support between conceptual principles of nature and the daily activities of the people .
Kamikazes, fleurs de cerisiers et nationalisme
AvEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
E-bok
PDF, Franska, 2014
542 kr
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La guerre du Pacifique s’est finie tragiquement avec l’opération Tokkotai, sans précédent dans l’histoire, qui a envoyé des milliers de jeunes hommes à la mort. Parmi eux, environ un millier étaient des étudiants provenant des meilleures universités, diplômés précocement afin d’être mobilisés. Aucun n’est mort pour l’empereur, aucun ne fut vraiment « volontaire », et aucun n’a envisagé cet acte comme un suicide – tout le contraire du stéréotype des pilotes kamikazes ayant enterré les informations factuelles dans la poubelle de l’histoire. Pourquoi ces hommes en sont-ils venus à approuver la mission militaire et impériale du Japon ? Pourquoi se sont-ils envolés vers leur mort, quand ils ont su que le Japon allait perdre la guerre ? Afin de répondre à ces interrogations, l’ouvrage étudie le développement de la militarisation des masses et examine en détails les journaux intimes des pilotes écrits sur plusieurs années. Les quêtes intellectuelles auxquelles ils aspirent incarnent l’expérience de beaucoup de Japonais qui, depuis la fin du xviiie siècle, se passionnent pour la haute culture occidentale, tout en résistant à l’impérialisme politique et culturel de l’Occident.

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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney – författare

Kamikaze Diaries

Culture Through Time

Kamikaze Diaries

Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms

Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms

Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan

Rice as Self

Monkey as Mirror

Monkey as Mirror

Culture Through Time

Flowers That Kill

Flowers That Kill

Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu

Rice as Self

Representations of “Japanese Nature”

Representations of “Japanese Nature”

Kamikazes, fleurs de cerisiers et nationalisme

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