Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self-presentation in Japan (Dress, Body, Culture)

by Brian J . Mc Veigh (Author)

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  2000

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  The popularity of uniforms in Japan suggests important linkages: material culture, politico-economic projects, bodily management, and the construction of subjectivity are all connected to the wearing of uniforms. This book examines what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the expression of economic nationalism in Japan.