Coffee Life in Japan

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University of California Press, 2012 - 222 էջ
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.
 

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Illustrations
8
Coffee and the Counterintuitive
19
Modernity and the Passion Factory
42
Performing Perfection
66
Kafekosen
85
Japans Liquid Power
89
Coffee apparatus
90
Taste in the Contemporary Café
108
Hachi Hachi Infinity Café exterior
148
Hachi Hachi Infinity Café interior
155
Knowing Your Place
157
Rihou gallery café
158
Prinz gallery café and restaurant
163
MoAn café
171
Visits to Cafés an Unreliable Guide
173
Efish café 2
174

Hanafusa café
109
Ambient Café Mole exterior
117
Ambient Café Mole interior
124
Webs Grids and Third Places
127
Alone in a brown café
129
Lush Life jazz café
142

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Merry White is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and is the author of many books, including Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (UC Press) and The Japanese Overseas.

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