Into the field : human scientists of transwar Japan /

Into the Field is a collective biography of the generation of Japanese human scientists who created ""objective"" field knowledge of human diversity to support imperial expansionism and control before 1945, and modernization under U.S. auspices thereafter.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kadia, Miriam Kingsberg, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Anthropologists > Japan > History > 20th century.
Anthropology > Japan > History > 20th century.
Social scientists > Japan > History > 20th century.
Social sciences > Japan > 20th century.
National characteristics, Japanese > History > 20th century.
Anthropologues > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Anthropologie > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Spécialistes des sciences sociales > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sciences sociales > Japon > 20e siècle.
Japonais > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Anthropologists.
Anthropology.
Intellectual life.
National characteristics, Japanese.
Social sciences.
Social scientists.
Japan > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Japon > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siècle.
Japan.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : men of one age
  • The origins of fieldwork in the Japanese Empire
  • Group fieldwork in wartime
  • Objectivity under the U.S. occupation
  • From "race" to "culture"
  • Others into Japanese
  • Japanese into others
  • Excavating national identity in the antipodes
  • 1968 and the passing of the field generation.

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