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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827346203321

Autore

Christy Alan S.

Titolo

A discipline on foot : inventing Japanese native ethnography, 1910-1945 / / Alan Christy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-4422-1649-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

305.800952/0904

Soggetti

Ethnology - Japan - History - 20th century

Japan History 20th century

Japan Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 : Travelers; Part I Exceeding Knowledge,  Becoming Practice; 2 : The Discipline of the Foot; 3 : Travel as Reading; Part II Sewing and Sowing; 4 : The Native Place Index; 5 : The Folk Index; 6 : Cultivating Informants; 7 : Buried Authors, Excavated; Part III Pioneering; 8 : Western Social Science  and the Japanese Task; 9 : Daily Life; 10 : From Dilettantes and Eccentrics  to Colleagues; Epilogue : Colonial Dreams,  Colonial Nightmares; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the fundamental question of how a new discipline comes into being, this groundbreaking book tells the story of the emergence of native ethnology in Imperial Japan, a "one nation" social science devoted to the study of the Japanese people. Roughly corresponding to folklore studies or ethnography in the West, this social science was developed outside the academy over the first half of the twentieth century by a diverse group of intellectuals, local dignitaries, and hobbyists. Alan Christy traces the paths of the distinctive individuals who founded <span style="