Lindsey E Dewitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsey E Dewitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsey E |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewitt |
| SIGNATURE | DEWITT L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9713-4766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Japan's Sacred Sumo and the Exclusion of Women
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo offer a fitting and timely point of departure to consider the religion-based exclusion of women and, by extension, to peer into the nation-culture-religion-gender nexus in Japan. The Japan Sumo Association, a quasi-governmental corporation, champions itself as the custodian of a divine affair cultivated by male deities and mortal men, and exclusive of women. The Sumo Association bans women and girls from ent…
Shugendo and Kyushu
ountain Mandalas: Shugend in Kyushu by Allan G. Grapard spotlights two highly conspicuous yet enigmatic features of Japan's cultural and historical topography. The first is Shugendo , a mountain-based institutional and ritual system whose combinatory beliefs and practices represent a "dominant aspect of Japanese spiritual history and practices" (xii). The second is Kyushu, an island long ignored by Yamato-centric approaches to Japanese history an…
Envisioning and Observing Women's Exclusion from Sacred Mountains in Japan
1 "Women's exclusion" (nyonin kekkai , nyonin kinsei ) denotes a variety of prohibitions against women from entering sites, such as shrines, temples, mountain pilgrimage sites, festivals, sumo platforms, tunnels, or engaging in certain activities, for example brewing sake or firing kilns. In this essay I use the term most often to refer to women's exclusion from mountains
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Envisioning and Observing Women's Exclusion from Sacred Mountains in Japan
1 "Women's exclusion" (nyonin kekkai , nyonin kinsei ) denotes a variety of prohibitions against women from entering sites, such as shrines, temples, mountain pilgrimage sites, festivals, sumo platforms, tunnels, or engaging in certain activities, for example brewing sake or firing kilns. In this essay I use the term most often to refer to women's exclusion from mountains
Shugendo and Kyushu
ountain Mandalas: Shugend in Kyushu by Allan G. Grapard spotlights two highly conspicuous yet enigmatic features of Japan's cultural and historical topography. The first is Shugendo , a mountain-based institutional and ritual system whose combinatory beliefs and practices represent a "dominant aspect of Japanese spiritual history and practices" (xii). The second is Kyushu, an island long ignored by Yamato-centric approaches to Japanese history an…
Japan's Sacred Sumo and the Exclusion of Women
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo offer a fitting and timely point of departure to consider the religion-based exclusion of women and, by extension, to peer into the nation-culture-religion-gender nexus in Japan. The Japan Sumo Association, a quasi-governmental corporation, champions itself as the custodian of a divine affair cultivated by male deities and mortal men, and exclusive of women. The Sumo Association bans women and girls from ent…
History (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Battlefield (1 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 works) · Corporation (1 works) · Educational Robotics and Engineering (1 works)