Discipline on Foot Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910-1945

Name: Discipline on Foot Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910-1945
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ISBN: 9781442216471

ISBN-10: 1442216476

ISBN-13: 9781442216471

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alan Christy

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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 minzokugaku, how theory and practice developed, and how many previously unknown figures contributed to the growth of the discipline.…

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List price: $138.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.35" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Travelers



Exceeding Knowledge, Becoming Practice



The Discipline of the Foot



Travel as Reading



Sewing and Sowing



The Native Place Index: An Economy of Affects



The Folk Index: A Taxonomy of Daily Life



Cultivating Informants



Buried Authors, Excavated



Pioneering



Western Social Science and the Japanese Task



Daily Life: What the Academy Doesn't Know (and Is Unable to Ask)



From Dilettantes arid Eccentrics to Colleagues


Epilogue: Colonial Dreams, Colonial Nightmares


Notes


Bibliography


Index