Flowers that kill: communicative opacity in political spaces
Introduction : opacity, misrecognition, and other complexities of symbolic communication -- Japanese cherry blossoms : from the beauty of life to the sublimity of sacrificial death -- European roses : from 'bread and roses' to the aestheticization of murderers -- The subversive monkey in J...
| Summary: | Introduction : opacity, misrecognition, and other complexities of symbolic communication -- Japanese cherry blossoms : from the beauty of life to the sublimity of sacrificial death -- European roses : from 'bread and roses' to the aestheticization of murderers -- The subversive monkey in Japanese culture : from scapegoat to clown -- Rice and the Japanese collective self : the purity of exclusion -- The collective self and cultural/political nationalisms : cross-cultural perspectives -- The invisible and inaudible Japanese emperor -- (Non- )externalization of religious and political authority and power : a cross-cultural perspective. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 7, 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0804795940 |