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Islands of Eight Million Smiles by Hiroshi Aoyagi

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Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the “idol,” an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.

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Islands of Eight Million Smiles by Hiroshi Aoyagi

Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the idol, an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.

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Hiroshi Aoyagi is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Asia-Japan Research Center, Kokushikan University, Tokyo.

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ISBN 13	9780674017733
ISBN 10	0674017730
Title	Islands of Eight Million Smiles
Author	Hiroshi Aoyagi
Series	Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harvard University, Asia Center
Year published	2005-07-15
Number of pages	290
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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