Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice【並行輸入品】

■全国送料無料■並行輸入品のため、海外からのお取り寄せとなり、配送まで10-20日ほどのお時間を頂いておりますが、迅速配達を心掛けお届けいたします。■詳しい納期は、事前にお問い合わせいただくか、ご購入後にお知らせいたします。■関税につきまして、お客様の負担は一切ございませんのでご安心ください。■海外からの輸送により外箱に若干のいたみ等が出る場合がございますが、商品自体には問題はございません。■税関にて内容確認のため開封される場合がございますが、商品に影響が出るような事はございませんのでご安心くださいませ。The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole?Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here she offers the first comprehensive analysis of the practice that includes new material on its historical changes, a detailed excavation of its institutional organization, and a careful examination of what she terms "nation-work"―the labor that connects the national meanings of a cultural practice and the actual experience and enactment of it. She concludes by placing tea ceremony in comparative perspective, drawing on other expressions of nation-work, such as gymnastics and music, in Europe and Asia.Taking readers on a rare journey into the elusive world of tea ceremony, Surak offers an insightful account of the fundamental processes of modernity―the work of making nations.