The Nature of the Japanese State : Rationality and Rituality - Brian J. McVeigh

The Nature of the Japanese State

Rationality and Rituality

By: Brian J. McVeigh

Hardcover | 1 October 1998 | Edition Number 1

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To many in the West Japan appears as a paradox: a rational, high-tech economic superpower and yet at the same time a deeply ritualistic and ceremonial society. In this adventurous new study, Brian J. McVeigh demonstrates how these nominally conflicting impressions of Japan can be reconciled and a greater understanding of the state achieved. By use of an anthropological approach the author shows that in Japan both rationality and rituality constitute a bureaucratic ethos, and that much of the intellectual discourse used to understand Japan is flawed.
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"It is ambitious in the scale of its topic, informative in its generally meticulously researched content, challenging in its thought-provoking arguments and calls for a new focus within anthropology, and at times provocative in its rejection of cosy widespread assumptions and its sharp criticism of observations deemed to be inaccurate...this is a book that leaves no room for complacency." -"Asian Studies Review

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