Gold powder and gunpowder| The appropriation of western firearms into Japan through high culture

<p> When an object is introduced to a new culture for the first time, how does it transition from the status of a foreign import to a fully integrated object of that culture? Does it ever truly reach this status, or are its foreign origins a part of its identity that are impossible to overlook...

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Main Author: Baldridge, Seth Robert
Language:EN
Published: The University of Utah 2016
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Online Access:http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10006268