Coffee Life in Japan White Merry I.
Coffee Life in Japan White Merry I. This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant caf society over one hundred and thirty years. White's book takes up themes as diverse…
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Coffee Life in Japan White Merry I.
This fascinating book--part ethnography, part memoir--traces Japan's vibrant caf society over one hundred and thirty years. White's book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America.
White describes how the caf in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality, dress, and taste. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal.
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