A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets

A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets
ISBN-10
1136795332
ISBN-13
9781136795336
Category
Social Science
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2013-09-13
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Brian Moeran

Description

This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan. By examining the production of advertising, this book turns other semiotics, media and cultural studies theories on their heads. By analysing the social structure of a modern media organization from the inside, it makes anthropology relevant and intellectually stimulating. By treating the Japanese as a more-or-less normal and rational people, it explodes the usual myths of exotic Japan and steps boldly into a global arena that embraces 'east' and 'west' in a new theory of values.

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