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Title Japan at play : the ludic and the logic of power / edited by Joy Hendry and Massimo Raveri
Published New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description xvi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24cm
Series The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
Contents Introduction / Massimo Raveri -- 1. The Japanese tattoo: play or purpose? / Joy Hendry -- 2. Interpreting the world as a ken game / Sepp Linhart -- 3. Kono sekai (the Japanese gay scene): communities or just playing around? / Wim Lunsing -- 4. Karakuri: the ludic relationship between man and machine in Tokugawa Japan / Yamaguchi Masao -- 5. Ludic elements in Japanese attitudes to tsukuru / Maria-Dolores Rodriguez Del Alisal -- 6. Saved by the love song: Japanese rock fans, memory and the pursuit of pleasure / Carolyn S. Stevens -- 7. Inakazumo, fun, and socially sanctioned violence / Michael Ashkenazi -- 8. At the interstices: drinking, management, and temporary groups in a local Japanese organization / Eyal Ben-Ari -- 9. Training for leisure: karaoke and the seriousness of play in Japan / William H. Kelly -- 10. Is there a Japanese way of playing? / Rupert Cox -- 11. When the goal is not a goal: Japanese school football players working hard at their game / Simone Dalla Chiesa -- 12. Professional soccer in Japan / John Horne -- 13. Japan in the world of Johan Huizinga / Jan van Bremen -- 14. The countryside reinvented for urban tourists: rural transformation in the Japanese muraokoshi movement / Okpyo Moon -- 15. From curing and playing, to leisure: two Japanese hot springs: Arima and Kinosaki onsen / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis -- 16. Illegal fishing and power games / Ulrike Nennstiel -- 17. Hunters and hikers: rival recreations in the Japanese forest / John Knight -- 18. Japan at play in TDL (Tokyo Disneyland): the dialectics of asobi and reja / Aviad E. Raz
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Recreation -- Japan.
Leisure -- Japan.
Play -- Japan.
Author Hendry, Joy, 1945-
Raveri, Massimo.
LC no. 2001052013
ISBN 0415215013 :
0415379377 paperback
Other Titles Ludic and the logic of power