![]() | The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic Subjects: Ethnology -- Japan; Ethnopsychology -- Japan; National characteristics Japanese; Self-perception -- Japan; Identity (Psychology) -- Japan; Japan -- Social life and customs; The self serves as a universally available, effective, and indispensable filter for making sense of the chaos of the world. In her latest book, Takie Lebra attempts a new understanding of the Japanese self through her unique use of cultural logic. She begins by presenting and elaborating on two models ("opposition logic" and "contingency logic") to examine concepts of self, Japanese and otherwise. Guided by these, she delves into the three layers of the Japanese self, focusing first on the social layer as located in four "zones"--omote (front), uchi (interior), ura (back), and soto (exterior)--and its shifts from zone to zone. New light is shed on these familiar linguistic and spatial categories by introducing the dimension of civility. Lebra Takie Sugiyama : Takie Sugiyama Lebra is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i. |
![hidden image for function call](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/1x1.png)