Jennifer Robertson
Native and Newcomer
Making and Remaking a Japanese City
$26.95, £18.95 paperback
9780520086555
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This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community.
"Fascinating. . . . An instructive study for anyone concerned with the condensation of past, present, and future into a highly contentious politics of heritage that so often shapes modern identities of place, ethnicity, and nation."—American Historical Review
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