Category: Japan

By Mark James Hudson

ISBN-10: 0824819306

ISBN-13: 9780824819309

Many jap humans give some thought to themselves to be a part of an basically unchanging and remoted ethnic unit within which the organic, linguistic, and cultural elements of jap id overlap virtually thoroughly with one another. In its exam of the approaches of ethnogenesis (the formation of ethnic teams) within the jap Islands, Ruins of Identity bargains an method of ethnicity that differs essentially from that present in such a lot eastern scholarship and well known discourse. Following an in depth dialogue of prior theories at the formation of jap language, race, and tradition and the nationalistic ideologies that experience affected examine in those subject matters, Mark Hudson provides a version of a center eastern inhabitants in response to the twin beginning speculation at present preferred by way of actual anthropologists. in line with this version, the Jomon inhabitants, which used to be found in Japan through at the very least the tip of the Pleistocene, was once by way of agriculturalists from the Korean peninsula in the course of the Yayoi interval (ca. four hundred BC to advert 300). Hudson analyzes additional proof of migrations and agricultural colonization in a magnificent precis of modern cranial, dental, and genetic reports and in a cautious exam of the linguistic and archaeological records.

the ultimate sections of the publication discover the cultural building of jap ethnicity. Cultural points of ethnicity don't emerge pristine and entirely shaped yet are the results of cumulative negotiation. Ethnic identification is constantly recreated via interplay inside of and with no the society involved. the sort of view necessitates an method of tradition switch that takes under consideration advanced interactions with a bigger procedure. as a result, Hudson considers post-Yayoi ethnogenesis in Japan in the East Asian global process, analyzing the function of interplay among middle and outer edge within the formation of recent ethnic identities, comparable to the Ainu. He argues that the defining components of the Ainu interval and tradition (ca. advert 1200) could be associated on to a dramatic enlargement in jap exchange items flowing north as Hokkaido grew to become more and more exploited by way of middle areas to the south.

hugely unique and from time to time debatable, Ruins of Identity may be crucial examining for college students and students in jap reviews and should be of curiosity to anthropologists and historians engaged on ethnicity in different elements of the world.

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By Robert Hoppens, Christopher Gerteis

ISBN-10: 1472575466

ISBN-13: 9781472575463

The Nineteen Seventies have been a interval of dramatic switch in family among Japan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). the 2 international locations validated diplomatic relatives for the 1st time, cast shut financial ties and reached political agreements that also advisor and constrain kin this day. This ebook can provide a heritage of this foundational interval in Sino-Japanese family. It provides an updated diplomatic historical past of the connection but in addition is going past this to argue that Japan's kin with China has to be understood within the context of a bigger “China challenge” that used to be inseparable from a household contest to outline jap nationwide identification.

The China challenge in Postwar Japan demanding situations a few universal assertions or assumptions in regards to the position of jap nationwide id in postwar Sino-Japanese kinfolk, exhibiting how the background of eastern relatives with China within the Nineteen Seventies is formed by way of the energy of jap nationwide id, no longer its weakness.

By Patrick W. Galbraith, Jason G. Karlin

ISBN-10: 0230298303

ISBN-13: 9780230298309

This quantity is masterful in treating eastern idol tradition with the seriousness it merits. Scholarly and astute, the essays therapeutic massage the entire edges of a phenomenon that's capitalism's superstar snapshot: idols valued for an air of secrecy that trades among authenticity and the artifice of media/commodity creation. From scandal to spectacle, Johnny's to AKB48, the K-wave to digital video games, jap idols breed interest-affective up to fiscal. This quantity fantastically captures the complexity with which jap idols were produced and ate up, enjoyed and spurned, in postwar (and now put up postwar) Japan.
--Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke college, united states, and writer of Millennial Monsters

Idols and big name in jap Media tradition is going past the terrain of lady idols in addition to seriously reading fanatics and otaku. Alert to omnipresent consumerism, this quantity deftly navigates geographical regions of virtuality and delusion. Overseen by way of editors Galbraith and Karlin, the celebrity-fetish intersects right here with ideology and intimacy, ads and activism, sexuality and scandal. An informative and compelling tackle eastern media culture.
--Matt Hills, Reader in Media and Cultural reviews at Cardiff college, united kingdom, and writer of Fan Cultures

By Ruth Benedict, Javier Alfaya Bula

ISBN-10: 8420655856

ISBN-13: 9788420655857

En junio de 1944, las autoridades estadounidenses, desconcertadas ante las dificultades para predecir el comportamiento de su enemigo en el Pacífico y necesitadas de un repertorio de soluciones para acelerar l. a. victoria primero e institucionalizar l. a. ocupación después, encargaron a Ruth Benedict un estudio de antropología c

By Haruo Shirane

ISBN-10: 0231142374

ISBN-13: 9780231142373

Haruo Shirane (ed.)

Reviews:

This attention-grabbing e-book bargains the main entire heritage of the reception of the "Genji"

(Japan Times)

[A] wealthy anthology.

(Choice)

A thought-provoking learn of a seminal work.

(Melinda Takeuchi Impressions 1900-01-00)

Crossing the premodern-modern divide, this collaborative paintings presents a finished historical past of the reception, interpretation, and version of the Genji. relatively laudable is the book's consciousness to visible transfigurations of the textual content. It leaves one surprised via the phenomenon that's the Genji throughout time.

(Sonja Arntzen, college of Toronto)

By Mark L. Blum, Shin'ya Yasutomi

ISBN-10: 0195132750

ISBN-13: 9780195132755

Rennyo Shonin (1415-1499) is taken into account the "second founder" of Shin Buddhism. below his management, the Honganji department grew in dimension and tool, changing into a countrywide association with nice wealth and effect. Rennyo's luck lay in conveying an enticing non secular message whereas exerting powerful administrative regulate. A savvy baby-kisser in addition to spiritual chief, ennyo performed an important position in political, monetary, and institutional advancements. even though he's undeniably the most influential folks within the heritage of jap faith, his legacy continues to be enigmatic and mostly neglected through the West. This quantity bargains an evaluate of Rennyo's contribution to Buddhist inspiration and the Honganji spiritual association. a suite of sixteen formerly unpublished essays by means of either jap and non-Japanese students within the parts of ancient experiences, Shinshu experiences, and comparative faith, it's the first e-book to confront a number of the significant questions surrounding the exceptional progress of Honganji below Rennyo's management. The authors study such issues because the resource of Rennyo's air of secrecy, the soteriological implications of his inspiration opposed to the heritage of different pursuits in natural Land Buddhism, and the connection among his rules and the expansion of his church. This assortment is a vital first step in bringing this crucial determine to an viewers open air Japan. it is going to be of vital curiosity to students within the fields of jap faith, jap social background, comparative faith, and the sociology of faith.

By Henry Sakaida, Koji Takaki

ISBN-10: 1841761613

ISBN-13: 9781841761619

B-29! No different time period struck such terror within the hearts of the japanese public in the course of global struggle 2 than this unmarried, most-hated identify. It was once then merely average that the pilots who tried to shoot those high-flying Boeing bombers out of the skies over Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Kobe may still turn into referred to as the elite of the japanese military Air strength.

By Takie Sugiyama Lebra

ISBN-10: 0520076028

ISBN-13: 9780520076020

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This most up-to-date paintings from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the 1st ethnographic research of the fashionable jap aristocracy. demonstrated as a category first and foremost of the Meiji interval, the kazoku ranked at once lower than the emperor and his relatives. formally dissolved in 1947, this team of social elites continues to be typically perceived as the Aristocracy. Lebra received access into this tightly knit circle and carried out a couple of hundred interviews with its contributors. She has woven jointly a reconstructive ethnography from their lifestyles histories to create an intimate portrait of a distant and archaic world.

As Lebra explores the tradition of the kazoku, she locations each one topic in its old context. She analyzes the evolution of prestige limitations and the quintessential position performed by way of outsiders.

But this booklet isn't easily concerning the elite. it's also approximately commoners and the way each one stratum mirrors the opposite. Revealing formerly unobserved complexities in jap society, it additionally sheds mild at the common challenge of social stratification.

By Craig Nelson

Instantly after Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to revive the consideration of the U.S. with a dramatic act of vengeance: a retaliatory bombing raid on Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, 80 courageous younger males, led by way of the well-known daredevil Jimmy Doolittle, took off from a army service within the mid-Pacific on what each person considered as a suicide project yet as a substitute turned a convincing American victory and helped flip the tide of the conflict. The First Heroes is the tale of that undertaking. Meticulously researched and according to interviews with twenty of the surviving Tokyo Raiders, it is a real account that just about defies trust, a big human drama of significant own braveness, and a strong reminder that standard humans, whilst confronted with striking situations, can upward thrust to the problem of heritage.