A discipline on foot : inventing Japanese native ethnography, 1910-1945 / Alan Christy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christy, Alan S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Japan--History--20th century.

Ethnology.

Japan--History--20th century.

Japan.

Japan--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 <span style="

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 : Travelers; Part I Exceeding Knowledge, Becoming Practice; 2 : The Discipline of the Foot; 3 : Travel as Reading; Part II Sewing and Sowing; 4 : The Native Place Index; 5 : The Folk Index; 6 : Cultivating Informants; 7 : Buried Authors, Excavated; Part III Pioneering; 8 : Western Social Science and the Japanese Task; 9 : Daily Life; 10 : From Dilettantes and Eccentrics to Colleagues; Epilogue : Colonial Dreams, Colonial Nightmares; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31983-2

1-4422-1649-2

OCLC:

876512449