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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821249003321

Autore

Hudson Mark J

Titolo

Conjuring up Prehistory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Archaeopress, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

1-80327-115-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (90 pages)

Disciplina

952.01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- About Access Archaeology -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Introduction. Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature -- Chapter 1. Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism -- Chapter 2. I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape -- Chapter 3. Deep Japan: the spectre of strata -- Chapter 4. Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology -- Chapter 5. Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping.

Sommario/riassunto

This study considers the ways in which archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been appropriated in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda.