Pre-industrial dreaming in post-industrial Japan: Department stores and the commoditization of community traditions

Japan Forum

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-149

  Creighton, Millie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advertising; Collective identity; Community; Consumerism; Craft; Invented tradition; Japan; Nostalgia; Ritual; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015504483     PISSN: 09555803     EISSN: 1469932X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09555809808721609     Document Type: Article

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