Coffee Life in Japan
Coffee Coffeehouses Popular culture Japan Home Economics Social Science COOKING SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural sähkökirjat
University of California Press
2012
EISBN 9780520952485
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1. Coffee in Public: Cafés in Urban Japan; 2. Japan's Cafés: 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 Café; 7. Urban Public Culture: Webs, Grids, and Third Places in Japanese Cities; 8. Knowing Your Place; Appendix: Visits to Cafés, an Unreliable Guide; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.
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 plea.
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 plea.
