is a Japanese

Japanese people

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 academic, author and professor of Sociology at the New School of Social Research in New York.

Career

Ikegami is Chair and Professor of Sociology at the New School of Social Research in New York.

She is associated in a Tokyo Foundation

Tokyo Foundation

is a think tank. It was established in 1997 as the Institute for the mission of becoming the private organization devoted to analyzing domestical and international issues for the future of Japan.- History :Leadership...

 research project as a fellow of the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institution (VCASI, pronounced “vee-kasi”).

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Eiko Ikegami, OCLC

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encompasses roughly 7 works in 10+ publications in 2 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.

• Praying for Peace: for the Generations that Do Not Know War (1982)
• Disciplining the Japanese: the Reconstruction of Social Control in Tokugawa Japan (1989)
• The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (1995); Japanese translation: (2000)
• Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and Political Origins of Japanese Culture (2005); Japanese translation: (2005)