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Author : Gina Lee Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Miwa Project written by Gina Lee Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gina L. Barnes
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 180327400X
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Tectonic Archaeology written by Gina L. Barnes and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of tectonic processes on archaeological sites are evidenced by earthquake damage, volcanic eruptions, and tsunami destruction, but these processes also affect a broader sphere of landform structures, environment, and climate. An overview of tectonic archaeology is followed by a detailed summary of geoarchaeological fieldwork in Japan.
Author : Mark James Hudson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824864190
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Ruins of Identity written by Mark James Hudson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Japanese people consider themselves to be part of an essentially unchanging and isolated ethnic unit in which the biological, linguistic, and cultural aspects of Japanese identity overlap almost completely with each other. In its examination of the processes of ethnogenesis (the formation of ethnic groups) in the Japanese Islands, Ruins of Identity offers an approach to ethnicity that differs fundamentally from that found in most Japanese scholarship and popular discourse. Following an extensive discussion of previous theories on the formation of Japanese language, race, and culture and the nationalistic ideologies that have affected research in these topics, Mark Hudson presents a model of a core Japanese population based on the dual origin hypothesis currently favored by physical anthropologists. According to this model, the Jomon population, which was present in Japan by at least the end of the Pleistocene, was followed by agriculturalists from the Korean peninsula during the Yayoi period (ca. 400 BC to AD 300). Hudson analyzes further evidence of migrations and agricultural colonization in an impressive summary of recent cranial, dental, and genetic studies and in a careful examination of the linguistic and archaeological records. The final sections of the book explore the cultural construction of Japanese ethnicity. Cultural aspects of ethnicity do not emerge pristine and fully formed but are the result of cumulative negotiation. Ethnic identity is continually recreated through interaction within and without the society concerned. Such a view necessitates an approach to culture change that takes into account complex interactions with a larger system. Accordingly, Hudson considers post-Yayoi ethnogenesis in Japan within the East Asian world system, examining the role of interaction between core and periphery in the formation of new ethnic identities, such as the Ainu. He argues that the defining elements of the Ainu period and culture (ca. AD 1200) can be linked directly to a dramatic expansion in Japanese trade goods flowing north as Hokkaido became increasingly exploited by core regions to the south. Highly original and at times controversial, Ruins of Identity will be essential reading for students and scholars in Japanese studies and will be of interest to anthropologists and historians working on ethnicity in other parts of the world. Text adopted at University ofChicago
Author : Gina L. Barnes
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785700715
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of East Asia written by Gina L. Barnes and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of East Asia constitutes an introduction to social and political development from the Palaeolithic to 8th-century early historic times. It takes a regional view across China, Korea, Japan and their peripheries that is unbounded by modern state lines. This viewpoint emphasizes how the region drew on indigenous developments and exterior stimuli to produce agricultural technologies, craft production, political systems, religious outlooks and philosophies that characterize the civilization of historic and even modern East Asia. This book is a complete rewrite and update of The Rise of Civilization in East Asia, first published in 1993. It incorporates the many theoretical, technical and factual advances of the last two decades, including DNA, gender, and isotope studies, AMS radiocarbon dating and extensive excavation results. Readers of that first edition will find the same structure and topic progression. While many line drawings have been retained, new color illustrations abound. Boxes and Appendices clarify and add to the understanding of unfamiliar technologies. For those seeking more detail, the Appendices also provide case studies that take intimate looks at particular data and current research. The book is suitable for general readers, East Asian historians and students, archaeology students and professionals. Praise for The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: “… the best English introduction to the archaeology of East Asia … brilliantly integrates the three areas into a broad regional context.” Prof. Mark Hudson
Author : Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810833746
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Area Bibliography of Japan written by Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a general overview of literature relating to Japan and covers a broad range of subject matter, from art, feminism, and linguistics, to corporate culture, history, and medicine. Includes books published since 1980 that are related to the geographical area of Japan and to Japanese culture within that area.
Author : Anna Andreeva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175712
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Assembling Shinto written by Anna Andreeva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries, several precursors of what is now commonly known as Shinto came together for the first time. By focusing on Mt. Miwa in present-day Nara Prefecture and examining the worship of indigenous deities (kami) that emerged in its proximity, this book serves as a case study of the key stages of “assemblage” through which this formative process took shape. Previously unknown rituals, texts, and icons featuring kami, all of which were invented in medieval Japan under the strong influence of esoteric Buddhism, are evaluated using evidence from local and translocal ritual and pilgrimage networks, changing land ownership patterns, and a range of religious ideas and practices. These stages illuminate the medieval pedigree of Ryōbu Shintō (kami ritual worship based loosely on esoteric Buddhism’s Two Mandalas), a major precursor to modern Shinto. In analyzing the key mechanisms for “assembling” medieval forms of kami worship, Andreeva challenges the twentieth-century master narrative of Shinto as an unbroken, monolithic tradition. By studying how and why groups of religious practitioners affiliated with different cultic sites and religious institutions responded to esoteric Buddhism’s teachings, this book demonstrates that kami worship in medieval Japan was a result of complex negotiations."
Author : Torild Skard
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842771075
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Continent of Mothers, Continent of Hope written by Torild Skard and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2003-06-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting through the Western media's stereotype picture of Africa as a continent wracked only by civil conflict and AIDS, Torild Skard has written an engrossing introduction to a continent in change. Based on her extensive travels through the region, Skard combines eyewitness accounts, lively description and deeply informed insight to portray the human reality of Africa today. With honesty, cultural sensitivity, and a commitment especially to women, she frankly describes the social, health, and other problems experienced by its people, but also the sources of hope for the future represented by courageous individuals, community-level projects, and programs being implemented in the region.
Author : Dorothy S. Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520014183
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (141 download)
Download or read book The Spoilage written by Dorothy S. Thomas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a half years. No more blatant violation of civil rights has ever been decreed by an American president, yet so strong were the currents of bigotry and war time hysteria that effective political opposition was impossible. However, a group of University of California social scientists, sensing the enormity of the outrage, organized in 1942 to record and analyze the causes, legal and social consequences, and long-term effects of the detention program. The Spoilage, one of a series of books which resulted, analyzes the experiences of that part of the detained group-some 18,000 in total-whose response was to renounce America as a homeland; it shows the steps by which these "disloyal" citizens were inexorably pushed toward the disaster of denationalization. Essentially the result of years of research by participant observers of Japanese ancestry, it is a factual record of enduring value to the student of America's troubled ethnic relations.
Author : Chris Gosden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134828497
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Prehistory of Food written by Chris Gosden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prehistory of Food sets subsistence in its social context by focusing on food as a cultural artefact. It brings together contributors with a scientific and biological expertise as well as those interested in the patterns of consumption and social change, and includes a wide range of case studies.
Author : Song-nai Rhee
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699673
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Archaeology and History of Toraijin written by Song-nai Rhee and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the recently uncovered archaeological data and ancient historical records, this book offers an overview of the 14 centuries-long Toraijin story, from c. 800~600 BC to AD 600, exploring the fundamental role these immigrants, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, played in the history of the Japanese archipelago during this formative period.
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791386085
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)
Download or read book I Can Make You Feel Good written by and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first published monograph, Tyler Mitchell, one of America's distinguished photographers, imagines what a Black utopia could look like. I Can Make You Feel Good, is a 206-page celebration of photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell's distinctive vision of a Black utopia. The book unifies and expands upon Mitchell's body of photography and film from his first US solo exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Each page of I Can Make You Feel Good is full bleed and bathed in Mitchell's signature candy-colored palette. With no white space visible, the book's design mirrors the photographer's all-encompassing vision which is characterized by a use of glowing natural light and rich color to portray the young Black men and women he photographs with intimacy and optimism. The monograph features written contributions from Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries), Deborah Willis (Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University), Mirjam Kooiman (Curator, Foam) and Isolde Brielmaier (Curator-at-Large, ICP), whose critical voices examine the cultural prevalence of Mitchell's reimagining of the Black experience. Based in Brooklyn, Mitchell works across many genres to explore and document a new aesthetic of Blackness. He is regularly published in avant- garde magazines, commissioned by prominent fashion houses, and exhibited in renowned art institutions, Mitchell has lectured at many such institutions including Harvard University, Paris Photo and the International Center of Photography (ICP), on the politics of image making.
Author : Peter White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000115518
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Emergence of Agriculture written by Peter White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the first in the One World Archaeology series, is a compendium of key papers by leaders in the field of the emergence of agriculture in different parts of the world. Each is supplemented by a review of developments in the field since its publication. Contributions cover the better known regions of early and independent agricultural development, such as Southwest Asia and the Americas, as well as lesser known locales, such as Africa and New Guinea. Other contributions examine the dispersal of agricultural practices into a region, such as India and Japan, and how introduced crops became incorporated into pre-existing forms of food production. This reader is intended for students of the archaeology of agriculture, and will also prove a valuable and handy resource for scholars and researchers in the area.
Author : Farhad Yazdandoost
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203024095
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Hydraulics of Dams and River Structures written by Farhad Yazdandoost and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the papers of the International Conference on Hydraulics of Dams and Rivers Structures, held in Tehran, 26-28 April 2004. The topics covered include air-water flows, intakes and outlets, hydrodynamic forces, energy dissipators, stepped spillways, scouring and sedimentation around structures, numerical approaches in river hydrodynamics, river response to hydraulic structures and hydroinformatic applications. This proceedings provides professionals and researchers with news of interdisciplinary research findings, considering future development of the sector in its many and various applications.
Author : Thomas R. Rocek
Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
ISBN 13 : 0873659562
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Seasonality and Sedentism written by Thomas R. Rocek and published by Peabody Museum Press. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume explore the issues and techniques of archaeological site seasonality and settlement analysis. Examples introduce a broad range of specific analytical techniques of seasonality assessment and show variability and similarity in settlement patterns worldwide.
Author : Michael Weiner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415208550
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan: Race, ethnicity and culture in modern Japan written by Michael Weiner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sakae Yamamoto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319078631
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Applications and Services written by Sakae Yamamoto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 8521 and 8522 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Interface and the Management of Information thematic track, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2014, held in Heraklion, Greece, in June 2014, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1476 papers and 220 posters presented at the HCII 2014 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4766 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. This volume contains papers addressing the following major topics: e-learning and e-education; decision support; information and interaction in aviation and transport; safety, security and reliability; communication, expression and emotions; art, culture and creativity; information and knowledge in business and society.
Author : William Shurtleff
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
ISBN 13 : 1928914373
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (289 download)
Download or read book How Japanese and Japanese-Americans Brought Soyfoods to the United States and the Hawaiian Islands--A History (1851-2011) written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2011 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
