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Prologue: To Students and Instructors  Part 1: Approaches and Analytics  1. Myths: Images and Realities of Japan  2. Rituals: Understanding Patterned Practices and Behaviors  3. Exchange: Analyzing the Flow and Transfer of Goods and Values  4. Macro–Micro Levels: Linking the Everyday with Political Economic Institutions  5. Symbols: Interpreting Images, Representations, and Meanings  6. Identity: How Collectivities Configure a Sense of Self  7. Popular Culture: Arts, Entertainment, and Leisure as Interpretative Windows  8. Ownership: The Relationship Among Property, Politics, and Personhood  9. Embodiment: The Senses, Aesthetics, and Knowledge Formation  10. Theatrics: Social Life as Dramatization  Part 2: Applications, Examples, and Illustrations  11. Schooling as an Exchange with the National State  12. The Rhythms and Organizations of Schooling  13. Social Mobility and Class in Japan  14. Japan’s Corporate Culture and Economic Liberty  15. Political Liberation: Examples from History and Art  16. Liberalist Ideologies and their Practice in Japan  17. Searching for "Authentic" Japanese Identity: Portrayals in Popular Art  18. Delineating the "Mainstream" Identity of the Japanese  19. The Symbolism of Spatial Experience  20. Making Sense of Sound: Japanese Auditory Symbolism  21. Conceptual Basics of the Japanese Language  22. How Japanese Encodes Time as Spatial Relations  23. How Political Economics Shapes Politeness  24. Manners and Morals in Everyday Life  25. Gender Relations in Popular Art: Commentary and Critical Appraisals  26. Cuteness: Daily Aesthetics as Resistance to Social Order  27. Changing Patterns and Perceptions of the Japanese Family  28. Japanese Spirituality: Purification and Festivals  29. The Vitalism of Japan’s New Religions  30. Technology, Time, and the Culture of the Copy  31. The Magic of Technology: Fears and Fantasies in Japanese Science Fiction  32. Royal Weddings: The Self-presentation of the State  Epilogue: Lessons from Japan: The "Staginess" of Postmodern Social Life