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Japan and national anthropology : a critique / Sonia Ryang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ryang, Sonia.
- Series:
- RoutledgeCurzon/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series ; 6.
- RoutledgeCurzon/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Japan.
- Anthropology.
- Ethnology--Japan.
- Ethnology.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 256 p. : 1 map.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our view of Japan.
- Contents:
- chapter Introduction
- chapter 1 Anthropology and the war
- chapter 2 Benedictian myth
- chapter 3 Occupation anthropology
- chapter 4 Locating Japanese kinship
- chapter 5 The emergence of national anthropology
- chapter 6 The Japanese self.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-252) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-99590-7
- 0-415-70032-9
- 1-135-99591-5
- 1-280-07886-3
- 0-203-79981-X
- 9780203799819
- OCLC:
- 437061783
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