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âWhat Becomes a Legend Most?â[i] Medieval Hobbies, Gift Giving and Grizzly Power Grabs
Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan Pitelka. Honolulu: University of Hawaiâi Press, 240 pp., $60.00 (cloth). Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability is, like a thought-filled offering, at the same time scholarly and accessible. In this fascinating analysis of ego-satisfaction among the leading influencers during…
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The pre-modern Japanese were not, of course, innocent of environmental exploitationâthey razed many mountainsides and turned many fields after reciting the requisite prayersâbut they understood their relationship to the environment in a radically different way than modern Japanese do.
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