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Keiko Ikeda - Room Full of Mirrors - 9780804734356 - V9780804734356
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Room Full of Mirrors

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Description for Room Full of Mirrors Hardback. Drawing on candid personal narratives derived from reunions ranging from the fifth to the fiftieth, this pathbreaking book demonstrates that for many Americans the high school reunion is a rich, poignant experience and a dramatic moment in the construction of self and meaning in adulthood. Num Pages: 220 pages, 3 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMC; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 425.

The high school reunion occurs throughout the United States and cuts across differences in age, locality, and ethnicity. This popular event is commonly thought of as a light-hearted social occasion or an exercise in nostalgia that has little other significance in the lives of its participants. Drawing on candid personal narratives derived from reunions ranging from the fifth to the fiftieth, this pathbreaking study demonstrates, however, that for many Americans the high school reunion is a rich and often poignant experience.

Of particular interest is the fact that this ethnographic study was conducted by a Japanese anthropologist trained in the ... Read more

The author examines the American high school reunion as a dramatic scene in the construction of self and meaning in adulthood. During the high school reunion, Americans are thrown into a room full of mirrors in which they are confronted by different visions of themselves. There they see images of their high school selves filtered through the lights and shadows cast by classmates’ memories and projected against the backdrop created by the lives of those classmates in the present day. Through an analysis of the multiple reflections of self that emerge during reunions, the author shows how reunions afford people an occasion on which to reevaluate their own memories and arrive at a new understanding of self. The American high school reunion thus provides participants with a series of self-perceptions from which they can construct new narratives of their own lives.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804734356
SKU
V9780804734356
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Keiko Ikeda
Keiko Ikeda is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of American Studies at Doshisha University, in Kyoto.

Reviews for Room Full of Mirrors
"Ikeda's book would fit well in an undergraduate course on the anthropology of America, as a text from which to raise questions about America." —Journal of Anthropological Research "A Room Full of Mirrors takes on an important task in the study of American culture. As readers, we get an intimate view of two elements of high school culture [high school ... Read more

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