Gift-Giving in Japan: Cash, Connections, Cosmologies

By Katherine Rupp

Book Overview

Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at the personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804747032
• ISBN13: 9780804747035
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.8"