Troubled Natures : : Waste, Environment, Japan /

Troubled Natures : : Waste, Environment, Japan / / Peter Wynn Kirby.

What does "environment" really mean in the complex, non-Western milieu of present-day Tokyo? How can anthropology contribute to the technical discussions and quantitative measures typically found in environmental studies? Author Peter Wynn Kirby explores these questions through a deep cult...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Kirby, Peter Wynn,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 14 b&w images, 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Japan's Waste Shadow
  • Chapter 2. Perils of Proximity: An Invisible Scourge
  • Chapter 3. Mediated Anxieties: Nowhere to Hide
  • Chapter 4. The Cult(ures) of Japanese Nature
  • Chapter 5. Tokyo's Vermin Menace
  • Chapter 6. Pure Obsession: Pollution, Outcasts, and Exclusion
  • Chapter 7. Growth, Sex, Fertility, and Decline
  • Chapter 8. Constructing Sustainable Japan
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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