Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique - A Critique

Informationen zum Autor Sonia Ryang is Associate Profesor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, USA. She is also the author of Koreans in Japan . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgement Notes to the Reader Introduction 1. Anthropology and the War 2. Benedictian Myth 3. Occupation Anthropology 4. Locating Japanese Kinship 5. The Emergence of National Anthropology 6. Japanese Self Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Sonia Ryang, Sonia (University of Iowa Ryang, Ryang Sonia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9780415700320
• ISBN: 978-0-415-70032-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History