Protecting cultural authenticity: identity and the creation of tradition in the Japanese-Chilean community

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Title Protecting cultural authenticity: identity and the creation of tradition in the Japanese-Chilean community
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Humanities
Department Asia Center
Author Reyes-Navarro, Javiera Natalia
Date 2014-05
Description This research explores the formation and portrayal of ethnic identity among Japanese people living in Chile, both first and subsequent generations. Through personal interviews and the analysis of academic work on the topic and magazine articles on Japan during the 2000s, this thesis attempts to elucidate what role underlying concepts such as ‘culture' and ‘nation' play in the construction of a Japanese-Chilean identity and portrayal. By looking at the elements that in recent decades have disrupted these stereotypes, including access to different aspects of Japan through the mass media, it analyses what this perceived threat to Japanese-Chileans' arbitrage of cultural standards reveals about their long-held preconceptions of what constitutes Japaneseness and its relationships to Chilean social expectations.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Chile; Idenitity; Japan; Japanese-Chileans; Nikkei
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Arts
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Javiera Natalia Reyes-Navarro 2014
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 445,716 Bytes
Identifier etd3/id/2931
ARK ark:/87278/s6vf06p6
Setname ir_etd
ID 196500
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vf06p6
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