Coffee Life In Japan (400MB file) (California Studies In Food And Culture Ser. (PDF) #36)
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- Synopsis
- 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
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520952485
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/18/20
- Copyrighted By:
- The Regents of the University of California
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Cooking, Food and Wine, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Teresa Battey
- Proofread By:
- Teresa Battey
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.