TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ohnuki-Tierney,Emiko
TI  - The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual 
SN  - 9780691222103
AV  - DS821 
U1  - 952.04 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Animals and civilization
KW  - Japan
KW  - Buraku people
KW  - Japanese culture
KW  - Sociological perspectives
KW  - Monkeys
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Azuma Kagami
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Kojiki
KW  - Mountain Deity
KW  - Murasaki family
KW  - Nihongi
KW  - Oda Nobunaga
KW  - Ouwehand, C
KW  - Samson, G
KW  - Sarumaru Tayū
KW  - Shintoism
KW  - agriculture
KW  - ambiguity
KW  - anomalous symbol
KW  - catfish
KW  - cultured monkeys
KW  - dualism
KW  - dualistic cosmology
KW  - emotion
KW  - eta hinin
KW  - framing
KW  - healing, meaning of
KW  - hierarchy of meaning
KW  - historical actors
KW  - historical regularities
KW  - human-animal relationship
KW  - impurity
KW  - indexicality
KW  - inversion
KW  - kawaramono
KW  - laughter
KW  - long-term study of culture
KW  - marginals
KW  - mirror
KW  - multivocal symbols
KW  - non-agrarian population
KW  - nonresidents
KW  - oxen
KW  - performance
KW  - pronouns
KW  - radical negativity
KW  - reflexive monkey
KW  - reflexive symbol
KW  - residents
KW  - sansho
KW  - scapegoat
KW  - shomoji
KW  - sign
KW  - social position
KW  - stranger-deity
KW  - taboo
KW  - trickster
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; A Note to the Reader --; PART ONE: INTRODUCTION --; 1. Theoretical Setting --; 2. The Monkey as Metaphor for the Japanese --; PART TWO MEANINGS THROUGH HISTORY --; 3. The Monkey in Japanese Culture: Historical Transformations of Its Meaning --; 4. The Special Status People in Japanese Society: Historical Transformations of Their Meaning --; 5. The Monkey Performance: Historical Transformations of Its Meaning --; 6. The Monkey and the Special Status People in the Reflexive Structure of the Japanese --; PART THREE BASIC STRUCTURE, PROCESSUAL-CONTEXTUAL STRUCTURE, AND MULTIPLE STRUCTURES OF MEANING --; 7. The Monkey Performance of the Late Medieval Period --; 8. The Monkey Performance in Contemporary Japan --; PART FOUR FROM THE MEDIATING MONKEY TO THE REFLEXIVE MONKEY: HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND RITUAL STRUCTURE --; 9. Structures of Meaning in History, Myth, and Ritual --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This tripartite study of the monkey metaphor, the monkey performance, and the 'special status' people traces changes in Japanese culture from the eighth century to the present. During early periods of Japanese history the monkey's nearness to the human-animal boundary made it a revered mediator or an animal deity closest to humans. Later it became a scapegoat mocked for its vain efforts to behave in a human fashion. Modern Japanese have begun to see a new meaning in the monkey--a clown who turns itself into an object of laughter while challenging the basic assumptions of Japanese culture and society
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691222103?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691222103
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691222103/original
ER  -