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1. Love in Modern Japan

   Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society

   By Sonia Ryang

   Series: Anthropology of Asia

   This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization...

   Published July 8th 2008 by Routledge
2. Koreans in Japan

   Critical Voices from the Margin

   Edited by Sonia Ryang

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including...

   Published April 27th 2005 by Routledge
3. Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique

   By Sonia Ryang

   Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar...

   Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge