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Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book) by Susan J. Pharr is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book) about?
How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of age, sex, and former caste. How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to f
Who reads Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (A Philip E. Lilienthal Book)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Susan J. Pharr
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520080928
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Anthropology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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