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Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique (Routledgecurzon Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia Series, 6)

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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.

Author(s): Sonia Ryang
Edition: New edition
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 272

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Notes for the reader......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Anthropology and the war......Page 32
Benedictian myth......Page 64
Occupation anthropology......Page 90
Locating Japanese kinship......Page 118
The emergence of national anthropology......Page 156
The Japanese self......Page 183
Afterword......Page 210
Notes......Page 222
Bibliography......Page 240
Index......Page 270