Making Tea, Making Japan (original) (raw)
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The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole?...
The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole?
Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here she offers the first comprehensive analysis of the practice that includes new material on its historical changes, a detailed excavation of its institutional organization, and a careful examination of what she terms "nation-work"—the labor that connects the national meanings of a cultural practice and the actual experience and enactment of it. She concludes by placing tea ceremony in comparative perspective, drawing on other expressions of nation-work, such as gymnastics and music, in Europe and Asia.
Taking readers on a rare journey into the elusive world of tea ceremony, Surak offers an insightful account of the fundamental processes of modernity—the work of making nations.
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博士核心文献，通读了作者相关3篇文章+这本书。先看文章为佳，12年文章对应书理论、17年文对应书第1章、11年对应第2+3章，这样重要的已看完，书第4+5章可做补充。除去对我重要的理论，Surak做最好的是对茶道的现象学分析(17年文)和制度分析[Iemoto家元制](11年文和书第3章)。当然，看茶道历史可以了解下日本历史(11年文和书第2章)。但因为Iemoto的monopoly of aut... 博士核心文献，通读了作者相关3篇文章+这本书。先看文章为佳，12年文章对应书理论、17年文对应书第1章、11年对应第2+3章，这样重要的已看完，书第4+5章可做补充。除去对我重要的理论，Surak做最好的是对茶道的现象学分析(17年文)和制度分析[Iemoto家元制](11年文和书第3章)。当然，看茶道历史可以了解下日本历史(11年文和书第2章)。但因为Iemoto的monopoly of authority和茶道实践严格的等级制度，除了对实践微观精妙的现象学分析，民族志所能呈现的tension和dynamics也单薄了很多。Chanoyu crystallizes Japaneseness, yet remains an elitist, class-segmented art form. (展开)