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A Discipline on Foot

Author : Alan Christy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442216492
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book A Discipline on Foot written by Alan Christy and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a “one nation” social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people. Roughly corresponding to folklore studies or ethnography in the West, this social science was developed outside the academy over the first half of the twentieth century by a diverse group of intellectuals, local dignitaries, and hobbyists. Alan Christy traces the paths of the distinctive individuals who founded minzokugaku, how theory and practice developed, and how many previously unknown figures contributed to the growth of the discipline. Despite its humble beginnings, native ethnology today is a fixture in Japanese intellectual life, offering arguments and evidence about the popular, as opposed to elite, foundations of Japanese culture. Speaking directly to fundamental questions in anthropology, this authoritative and engaging book will become a standard not only for the field of native ethnology but also as a major work in broader modern Japanese cultural and intellectual history.

A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

Author : Jennifer Robertson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518289X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan written by Jennifer Robertson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation building; majority and minority cultures; genders and sexualities; and fashion and food cultures Resists stale and misleading stereotypes, by presenting new perspectives on Japanese culture and society Makes Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country

Globalizing Japan

Author : Harumi Befu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134542968
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Japan written by Harumi Befu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence as an economic giant. Areas examined include Japanese multinational corporations, popular music and perceptions of Japan in France and Korea.

The Journey of “A Good Type”

Author : David Odo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0873654080
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Journey of “A Good Type” written by David Odo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Japan opened its doors to the West in the 1860s, delicately hand-tinted photographic prints of Japanese people and landscapes were among its earliest and most popular exports. David Odo studies the collection of Japanese photographs at Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the ways they were produced, acquired, and circulated in the nineteenth century.

Multiculturalism in the New Japan

Author : Nelson H. H. Graburn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845452261
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Multiculturalism in the New Japan written by Nelson H. H. Graburn and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regionalism and decentralization, sports, business styles in the post-Bubble era, and the education of immigrant minorities.

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan

Author : Aike P. Rots
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474289959
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan written by Aike P. Rots and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new religious movements and, eventually, the conservative shrine establishment. Aike P. Rots argues that central to this development is the notion of chinju no mori: the sacred groves surrounding many Shinto shrines. Although initially used to refer to remaining areas of primary or secondary forest, today the term has come to be extended to any sort of shrine land, signifying not only historical and ecological continuity but also abstract values such as community spirit, patriotism and traditional culture. The book shows how Shinto's environmental turn has also provided legitimacy internationally: influenced by the global discourse on religion and ecology, in recent years the Shinto establishment has actively engaged with international organizations devoted to the conservation of sacred sites. Shinto sacred forests thus carry significance locally as well as nationally and internationally, and figure prominently in attempts to reposition Shinto in the centre of public space.

Doing Fieldwork in Japan

Author : Theodore C. Bestor
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824827342
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Doing Fieldwork in Japan written by Theodore C. Bestor and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducting long-term research in the social sciences and cultural studies. In lively first-person accounts, they discuss their successes and failures doing fieldwork across rural and urban Japan in a wide range of settings: among religious pilgrims and adolescent consumers; on factory assembly lines and in high schools and wholesale seafood markets; with bureaucrats in charge of defense, foreign aid, and social welfare policy; inside radical political movements; among adherents of "New Religions"; inside a prosecutor's office and the JET Program for foreign English teachers; with journalists in the NHK newsroom; while researching race, ethnicity, and migration; and amidst fans and consumers of contemporary popular culture. Contributors: David M. Arase, Theodore C. Bestor, Victoria Lyon Bestor, Mary C. Brinton, John Creighton Campbell, Samuel Coleman, Suzanne Culter, Andrew Gordon, Helen Hardacre, Joy Hendry, David T. Johnson, Ellis S. Krauss, David L. McConnell, Ian Reader, Glenda S. Roberts, Joshua Hotaka Roth, Robert J. Smith, Sheila A. Smith, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Merry Isaacs White, Christine R. Yano.

Ethnology in Japan

Author : Nihon Minzoku Gakkai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Ethnology in Japan written by Nihon Minzoku Gakkai and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Anthropologist in Japan

Author : Joy Hendry
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415195744
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book An Anthropologist in Japan written by Joy Hendry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthropologist in Japan is a highly personal narrative which provides unique insights into many elements of Japanese life.

Discourses of the Vanishing

Author : Marilyn Ivy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226388344
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Discourses of the Vanishing written by Marilyn Ivy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties—and the attempts to contain them—as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance. Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins accompanied the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state. This fascination culminated in the early twentieth-century establishment of Japanese folklore studies and its attempts to record the spectral, sometimes violent, narratives of those margins. She then traces the obsession with the vanishing through a range of contemporary reconfigurations: efforts by remote communities to promote themselves as nostalgic sites of authenticity, storytelling practices as signs of premodern presence, mass travel campaigns, recallings of the dead by blind mediums, and itinerant, kabuki-inspired populist theater.

Tsukiji

Author : Theodore C. Bestor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220242
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Tsukiji written by Theodore C. Bestor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

Author : Shinji Yamashita
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812582
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Book Synopsis The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia by : Shinji Yamashita

Download or read book The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia written by Shinji Yamashita and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a path-breaking series of essays the contributors to this collection explore the development of anthropological research in Asia. The volume includes writings on Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan

Author : JOHN. TRAPHAGAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621965022
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st-Century Japan written by JOHN. TRAPHAGAN and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnographic study develops the concept of cosmopolitan rurality as a social and geographical space that cannot be characterized as either urban or rural nor as specifically cosmopolitan or rustic. This study is an important book for Asian studies, rural studies, anthropology, and the study of entrepreneurialism.

Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion

Author : Tullio Federico Lobetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134472803
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion by : Tullio Federico Lobetti

Download or read book Ascetic Practices in Japanese Religion written by Tullio Federico Lobetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascetic practices are a common feature of religion in Japan, practiced by different religious traditions. This book looks at these ascetic practices in an inter-sectarian and inter-doctrinal fashion, in order to highlight the underlying themes common to all forms of asceticism. It does so by employing a multidisciplinary methodology, which integrates participant fieldwork – the author himself engaged extensively in ascetic practices – with a hermeneutical interpretation of the body as the primary locus of transmission of the ascetic ‘embodied tradition’. By unlocking this ‘bodily data’, the book unveils the human body as the main tool and text of ascetic practice. This book includes discussion of the many extraordinary rituals practiced by Japanese ascetics.

Origin Of Ethnography In Japan

Author : Minoru Kawada
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131772691X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Origin Of Ethnography In Japan written by Minoru Kawada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yanagita Kunio (1872-1962) is widely known as the founder of folklore studies in Japan, and his achievement in presenting a systematic framework for the discipline is highly valued amongst academic writings. However, many of his ideas still need to be examined, and in recent years there has been a renewal of interest in his works, especially among scholars of intellectual history. This re-evaluation of his achievements is generally attributable to the current view that Yanagita retained an independent position as an intellectual struggling to solve the various problems that dominated Japan in the years of great change from Meiji and Taisho to Showa. First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Organ Donation in Japan

Author : Maria-Keiko Yasuoka
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498515673
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Organ Donation in Japan written by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. The history of organ transplantation in Japan is a unique and troubled one. Many academic hypotheses such as cultural barriers, the Japanese concept of the dead body, traditional beliefs, and so on have been advanced to explain the situation. However, little research has yet revealed the truth behind the world of Japanese organ transplantation. Yasuoka conducts direct interview research with Japanese “concerned parties” in regards to organ transplantation (including transplant surgeons, recipients, and donor families). In this book, she analyzes their narrative responses, considering their distinctive ideas, interpretations, and dilemmas, and sheds light on the real reasons behind the issues. Organ Donation in Japan is the first book to delve into the challenging and taboo Japanese concepts of life and death surrounding organ transplantation by thoroughly presenting and investigating the narratives of concerned parties.

From Shinto to Ando

Author : Günter Nitschke
Publisher : Academy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854902894
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book From Shinto to Ando written by Günter Nitschke and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 1993-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing and well researched book traces in depth the ancient roots of Japanese sacred architecture and their relevance to architecture today, as exemplified particularly by the work of the contemporary Japanese architect Tadao Ando. It also provides an informative and fascinating insight into a subject that is worthy of meticulous attention.