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

• Autore: Christy Alan S.
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , [2012]; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800952/0904
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Japan - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Japan History 20th century; Japan Social life and customs 20th century
• 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="
• Titolo autorizzato: A discipline on foot
• ISBN: 1-4422-1649-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827346203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II