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PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520271157

ISBN-139780520271159

eBay Product ID (ePID)110870550

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCoffee Life in Japan

SubjectFood, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants, Asia / General, Beverages / Coffee & Tea, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2012

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTravel, Cooking, Social Science, History

AuthorMerry White

SeriesCalifornia Studies in Food and Culture Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2011-033139

Reviews_Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . Highly recommended._, "This excellent book combines academic rigour with lively descriptions and compelling prose."-- Times Higher Education, Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and . . . you'll probably enjoy this too., _Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafés in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them._, Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafs in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them., This book will certainly give you . . . a lot of new knowledge and maybe a whole new perspective on Japanese culture., Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation - all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and . . . you'll probably enjoy this too., "Perhaps this isn't really a review, more a recommendation - all I can really say is that I enjoyed it, and . . . you'll probably enjoy this too."-- Jimseven, Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . Highly recommended., You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes., "Provides an engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice, _ Coffee Life in Japan provides a novel and significant study on contemporary Japanese life through its examination of coffee and café culture._, _You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes._, "You'll find your eyes opened beyond the new and storied cafes you've heard of and into regional corners and paradoxical tastes."-- Serious Eats, "Highly Recommended. . . . An engaging and often personal account of Japanese coffeehouses. . . . The volume is accessible and well written."-- Choice, Merry White has whiled away many hours in cafés in Japan in her professional role as an anthropologist, and wishes to communicate the diversity and intimacy one can experience in them., "Required reading for coffee's true believers and industry insiders."-- T: the New York Times Style Magazine

Series Volume Number36

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentIllustrations Preface 1. Coffee in Public: Cafe´s in Urban Japan 2. Japan's Cafe´s: Coffee and the Counterintuitive 3. Modernity and the Passion Factory 4. Masters of Their Universes: Performing Perfection 5. Japan's Liquid Power 6. Making Coffee Japanese: Taste in the Contemporary Cafe´ 7. Urban Public Culture: Webs, Grids, and Third Places in Japanese Cities 8. Knowing Your Place Appendix: Visits to Cafe´s, an Unreliable Guide Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

SynopsisThis 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., 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., This fascinating book-part ethnography, part memoir-traces Japan's vibrant caf 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 caf 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.

LC Classification NumberGT2919.J3W55 2012