Islands of Eight Million Smiles
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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.
Hiroshi Aoyagi is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Asia-Japan Research Center, Kokushikan University, Tokyo.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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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