Japan

modernity

national-cultural imaginary

nostalgia

vanishing discourse

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

innovator in the field of

East Asian studies

Japan studies

anthropologist of Japan

anthropology of Japan

anthropology

is, in Japan, the problem of the nation-state and its correlation with a capitalist colonialism that ensured Japanese would be pulled into a global geopolitical matrix.

It indicates the problem of the nation-state and its correlation with a capitalist colonialism that ensured Japan would be pulled into a global geopolitical matrix from the mid-nineteenth century on. It indicates as well the changes effected in identities and subjectivites, through the emergence . . . ' (Ivy 1995 : 5)

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is an ambivalent longing to erase the temporal difference between subject and object of desire, shot through with not only the impossibility but also the ultimate unwillingness to reinstate what was lost.

Thus the consuming and consumable pleasures of nostalgia as an ambivalent longing to erase the temporal difference between subject and object of desire, shot through with not only the impossiblitity but also the ultimate unwillingness to reinstate what was lost. For the loss of nostalgia-- that is, the loss of the desire to long for what is lost because one has found the lost object-- can be more unwelcome than the original loss itself. Despite its labors to recover the past and deny the losses of 'tradition', modernist nostalgia must preserve, in many senses, the sense of absence that motivates its desires' (Ivy 1995 : 10)

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