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UNINA9910817752403321 |
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Autore |
Ryang Sonia |
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Titolo |
Japan and national anthropology : a critique / / Sonia Ryang |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-99590-7 |
0-415-70032-9 |
1-135-99591-5 |
1-280-07886-3 |
0-203-79981-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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RoutledgeCurzon/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series ; ; 6 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropology - Japan |
Ethnology - Japan |
Japan Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-252) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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