TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ohnuki-Tierney,Emiko
TI  - Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
SN  - 9780804795944
AV  - JC347 
U1  - 320.9401/4 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Redwood City
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Symbolism in politics -- Japan -- History
KW  - Symbolism in politics -- Europe -- History
KW  - Symbolism in communication -- Japan -- History
KW  - Symbolism in communication -- Europe -- History
KW  - Flowers -- Symbolic aspects -- Japan -- History
KW  - Flowers -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Opacity, Misrecognition, and Other Complexities of Symbolic Communication -- Part I: Sources of Communicative Opacity: Many Meanings, One Meaning, the Aesthetic -- 1. Japanese Cherry Blossoms: From the Beauty of Life to the Sublimity of Sacrificial Death -- 2. European Roses: From "Bread and Roses" to the Aestheticization of Murderers -- 3. The Subversive Monkey in Japanese Culture: From Scapegoat to Clown -- 4. Rice and the Japanese Collective Self: Purity by Exclusion -- Part II: Collective Identities and Their Symbolic Expression -- 5. The Collective Self and Cultural/Political Nationalisms: Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Part III: (Non-)Externalization: Religious and Political Authority/P ower -- 6. The Invisible and Inaudible Japanese Emperor -- 7. (Non-)Externalization of Religious and Political Authority/Power: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index
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