ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fukuzawa Yukichi, Origin Myth, Kojiki
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What is japanese culture: us is very important in japanese history (strong influence in the development, russia is also quite important. Modern japans uneasy relationships with its own history and traditions on the one hand and with modernity and the west on the other are 2 of the key characteristics of this period . In many ways, this is the period in which japan sought to square this circle and forge its own modernity in the face of the industrial expansion of the west. A nation as an imagined community - benedict anderson: constructed by technologies. The common symbols: these technologies raise the new consciousness of comradery among diverse people. What is culture : has many layers of meaning. 16th century refinement of human manners and intellectual attainments. 18th-19th century german (kultur): the whole complex of beliefs and customs of particular societies. 1870s edward tylor imported the german definition to english.