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The Monkey as Mirror
Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
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English
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2020
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a native of Japan, is Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among her works are Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation and Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View (both Cambridge).
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"In an important and interesting new work the anthropologist author examines the historical transformations of the concept of self and other in Japan. This subject, basic in any culture, sometimes seems central in Japan, and any elucidation it can receive is to be welcomed. . . . [This] is a fair, impartial, balanced reading of a neglected chain of metaphors which can teach us much about this country."---Donald Richie, The Japan Times
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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
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PART TWO MEANINGS THROUGH HISTORY
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PART THREE BASIC STRUCTURE, PROCESSUAL-CONTEXTUAL STRUCTURE, AND MULTIPLE STRUCTURES OF MEANING
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PART FOUR FROM THE MEDIATING MONKEY TO THE REFLEXIVE MONKEY: HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND RITUAL STRUCTURE
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 10, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780691222103
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eBook ISBN:
9780691222103
Keywords for this book
Early modern period; Deity; Middle Ages; Trickster; Culture and Society; Buddhism; Status group; Superiority (short story); Culture of Japan; Burakumin; Social structure; Japanese art; The Other Hand; Muromachi period; Myth and ritual; Macaque; Laughter; Ambiguity; Shinto; Japanese macaque; Yin and yang; Finding; Anti-establishment; Social group; Sarugaku; Symbolic communication; Shamisen; Street performance; Japanese language; Mr.; Sangaku; Dualistic cosmology; Religion; Japanese proverbs; Folk religion; Oral tradition; Ukiyo-e; Entertainment; Tax; Literature; Heian period; Ms.; Murasaki (novel); Clown; Manzai; The Various; Solar deity; Inoue; Yamaguchi Prefecture; Symbolic power; Anthropologist; Folk culture; Writing; I Wish (manhwa); Caste; Secularization; Tokugawa Ieyasu; Amaterasu; Imperial Court in Kyoto; Technology; Nature and Culture; Dance; Practical joke; World War II; Ridicule; Illustration; Household; Prejudice; Human behavior; Hokusai
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
