Islands of Eight Million Smiles

Islands of Eight Million Smiles
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015060998542
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Book Synopsis Islands of Eight Million Smiles by : Hiroshi Aoyagi

Download or read book Islands of Eight Million Smiles written by Hiroshi Aoyagi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the "idol," an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.


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