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By Susan J. Pharr

How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan deal with the matter of social inequality? Losing Face appears past traditional structural different types (race, type, ethnicity) to target conflicts in keeping with ameliorations in social prestige. 3 wealthy and revealing case stories discover the most important asymmetries of age, intercourse, and previous caste.

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