Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique

by Sonia Ryang

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415405793
• ISBN13: 9780415405799
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"