A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780700703319)

This is the only book of its kind - written by an anthropologist who spent twelve months doing fieldwork in a major Tokyo agency and who has spent the past 30 years studying and living in Japan. By examining the production of advertising, this book turns other semiotics, media and cultural studies theories on their heads. By analysing the social structure of a modern media organization from the inside, it makes anthropology relevant and intellectually stimulating. By treating the Japanese as a more-or-less normal and rational people, it explodes the usual myths of exotic Japan and steps boldly into a global arena that embraces 'east' and 'west' in a new theory of values.

Author: Brian Moeran
ISBN-10: 0700703314
ISBN-13: 9780700703319
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/04/1996
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover