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State Bearing Gifts: Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education

State Bearing Gifts: Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education

McVeigh, Brian J.

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0739113453
ISBN13: 9780739113455
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 16 2010
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value, ' 'exchange, ' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift, ' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitimacy.

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