Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36) by White, Merry
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)
- Genre
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Topic
- Beverages & Wine
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- ISBN
- 9780520271159
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520271157
ISBN-13
9780520271159
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110870550
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Coffee Life in Japan
Subject
Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, Asia / General, Popular Culture, Beverages / Coffee & Tea, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Travel, Cooking, Social Science, History
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-033139
Reviews
"This excellent book combines academic rigour with lively descriptions and compelling prose."-- Times Higher Education, Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and . . . you'll probably enjoy this too., _Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafés in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them._, _Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . Highly recommended._, Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafs in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them., This book will certainly give you . . . a lot of new knowledge and maybe a whole new perspective on Japanese culture., Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation - all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and . . . you'll probably enjoy this too., "Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation - all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and . . . you'll probably enjoy this too."-- Jimseven, Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . Highly recommended., You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes., "Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice, _ Coffee Life in Japan provides a novel and significant study on contemporary Japanese life through its examination of coffee and café culture._, "You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes."-- Serious Eats, _You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes._, "Highly Recommended. . . . An engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . The volume is accessible and well written."-- Choice, Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafés in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them., "Required reading for coffee's true believers and industry insiders."-- T: the New York Times Style Magazine
Series Volume Number
36
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Illustrations Preface 1. Coffee in Public: Cafe´s in Urban Japan 2. Japan's Cafe´s: Coffee and the Counterintuitive 3. Modernity and the Passion Factory 4. Masters of Their Universes: Performing Perfection 5. Japan's Liquid Power 6. Making Coffee Japanese: Taste in the Contemporary Cafe´ 7. Urban Public Culture: Webs, Grids, and Third Places in Japanese Cities 8. Knowing Your Place Appendix: Visits to Cafe´s, an Unreliable Guide Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public., 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. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public., This fascinating book-part ethnography, part memoir-traces Japan's vibrant caf 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 caf 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. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.
LC Classification Number
GT2919.J3W55 2012
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