MARC details
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520283190 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520283206 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
TJ211.4963 |
| Item number |
.ROB 2018 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Robertson, Jennifer, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1953- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Robo sapiens japanicus : |
| Remainder of title |
robots, gender, family, and the Japanese nation / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Jennifer Robertson. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Oakland, California : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
University of California Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 260 pages ; |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| Media type code |
n |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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rdacarrier |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Robot visions -- Innovation as renovation -- Families of future past -- Embodiment and gender -- Robot rights vs. human rights -- Cyborg-ableism beyond the uncanny (valley) -- Robot reality check. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual robots--humanoids, androids, animaloids--are "imagineered" in ways that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the "normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of the Uncanny Valley"--Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Human-robot interaction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Classification part |
211.4963 |
| Item part |
ROB |
| Call number prefix |
TJ |
