Lost in Translation
From Omiyage to Souvenir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2390862 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guido Carlo Pigliasco (0000-0002-7607-3981, University of Hawaii System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-196 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183505053074 |
| OpenAlex | W2016860069 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 34 |
Centering on the analysis of the omiyage (gifts brought back from trips for family, friends and colleagues) in Japan, this article describes the Japanese office ladies' (OLs) practices of consumption in Hawaii. In contemporary Japan, foreign goods, especially brand name ones, are not only bearers of intrinsic aesthetic value but are forms negotiating OLs' emancipatory social action. Based on interviews with OLs visiting Hawaii's shopping scene between 1994 and 2004, this article explores the nature and evolution of the Japanese omiyage, analyzing its metamorphosis and trespasses, along with issues of internationalization and consumption. These changes delineate an historical transformation from a traditional culture characterized by a non-individualistic, others-oriented omiyage practice, to a material one, self-oriented and characterized by a form of Occidentalism, fetishized fads and style-status symbols
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Individualism · Internationalization · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Style (visual arts · TRIPS architecture · Value (mathematics · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Wrapping culture
Re-Made in Japan
Office Ladies and Salaried Men
Contemporary Urban Japan
On Longing
Unbearable Weight
Material culture and mass consumption
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Distinction
Japanese Aesthetics
Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan
The Body & Society
The Japanese Encounter with the South
Discourses of the Vanishing
Consuming Passions
To pray, pay and play
The evolution of tourist arts
Japan
Office Ladies, Factory Women
Women, Media and Consumption in Japan
The tourist
Women on the Verge
The Gift
Gender, Modernity, and Eroticized Internationalism in Japan
Women, Media, and Consumption In Japan
Material Culture and Cognition1
Commodifying Affection, Authority and Gender in the Everyday Objects of Japan
My Favorite Things
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |