Shinji Yamashita
Biographic Data
| ID | 124626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shinji Yamashita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shinji |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamashita |
| SIGNATURE | YAMASHITA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9964-5228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection
In memory of Dr. Valene L. Smith
Valene L. Smith is best known as the editor of the successful book Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. Her life was dedicated to the anthropological study of tourism. In this article commemorating her life, I look at her work, particularly from the Japanese context in which I developed my anthropological study of tourism. This year, 2024, marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Hosts and Guests. A classic book like this will b…
Reshaping Anthropology
This chapter reviews the history of Japanese anthropology since its foundation in 1884 and highlights its distinctive features and achievements. It examines Japanese anthropology in the wider contexts of world anthropologies and the main issues that contemporary Japanese anthropology faces. Japanese anthropologists are exploring the use of anthropological knowledge in a wider range of contexts, including practical fields such as the work of inter…
J apan, Anthropology in
This entry discusses the development of anthropology research and teaching in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It traces the work of successive generations of Japanese scholars from the early days of armchair anthropology via the period of Japan's colonial expansion to the redevelopment of the discipline in the postwar period. The later part of the entry discusses the reasons why Japanese anthropology, despite a long his…
Anthropologies of Tourism
Tourism
East Asian Anthropology
Wind Over Water
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraord…
Wind over water
S. Eades Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities Chapter 1. Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam Nicolas Lainez Chapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and Institutions Xiang Biao Chapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of China Zhang Jijiao Chapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore's Changing Demography, Identity, and Landscape Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam Chapter 5. A Transn…
The Public Anthropology of Disaster
On March 11, 2011, a mega-earthquake of 9.0 magnitude struck East Japan, followed by a huge tsunami. The earthquake and tsunami damaged vast areas, particularly along the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region, and killed approximately 20,000 people, including the missing. The Japanese government estimated the damage at about 17 trillion Japanese yen. However, the damage is immeasurable if the breakdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants i…
The Japanese encounter with the South
Transnational Migration in East Asia
This special two-day conference on migration, held May 31-June 1, 2007, at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, was one of the first and most comprehensive meetings of scholars on the full dimensions and implications of migration both to and from Japan. It was also a valuable opportunity to reconsider international migration from an East Asian vantage point ? and especially convenient for non-Japanese since the papers were wri…
Transnational Migration
Responses to ‘“Other Anthropologies and Anthropology Otherwise”
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
The making of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
"Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic "world-system." The anthropological experience in this region has been varied. Japanese anthropology developed early, and ranks second only to that of the United States in terms of the number of acti…
Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
Constructing Selves and Others in Japanese Anthropology
The Japanese Encounter with the South
This paper examines some sociocultural implications of Palauan tourism through the lens of Japanese tourists. In 1997, Palau had some seventy thousand international visitors, of whom more than twenty thousand were Japanese, second only to the Taiwanese, whose visits have been increasing rapidly in recent years. After discussing the general characteristics of tourism in Palau, I investigate the Japanese way of encountering Palau, not only through …
Bali
Celebrated for the richness of its artistic and religious traditions, the island of Bali has made its culture the brand image of its tourist product. This has aroused fears among foreign observers and indigenous authorities alike, who wonder in unison whether Balinese culture will survive the impact of tourism. But beyond the legitimate disquiet that it signals, this question is misleading, for it implies that tourism is an external force strikin…
Indonesian into Japanese
29,1997. Oshikawa is the foremost translator o f Indonesian writing into Japanese.He was one o f a group o f people who were student radicals in the 1960s and who followed the reading group led by the historian Tsuchiya Kenji.These people form the core of Indonesianists of their generation in Japan, with the exception of the anthropologists who were not part o f the group. 1 found Oshikawa's remarks interesting for the glimpse they offer of the h…
Manipulating Ethnic Tradition
Focusing on a single funeral ceremony among the Toraja of Sulawesi, this article examines Toraja ethnic culture within broader-not only local but also national and globalsocioeconomic contexts, with special reference to the development of tourism in the region, and to Japanese television which filmed the funeral. In so doing, the paper attempts to depict the dynamic way in which an ethnic culture is staged in the contemporary postmodem setting.1
The Toraja Community in Ujung Pandang
Most studies on Southeast Asian cities have emphasized the capital cities (or “primate cities”), which are the cornerstones of their nation-building, while local cities have not received due attention. One of the basic assumptions underlying the present study is that a theoretical model can be built which will prove fruitful in the study of “middle-scale society,” While we already have a “micro” (conventional anthropological) model based on data …
Uma Minanga
This paper, part of a larger social anthropological study of the Sa'dan Toraja people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, deals with agricultural life on the basis of observations made from September 1976 to January 1978. The dominant mode of their agricultural system varies from wet-rice cultivation to dry-field and swidden cultivation, depending on the ecological conditions of the particular region. Here I present an ethnographic account of a village…
Wind over water
S. Eades Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities Chapter 1. Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam Nicolas Lainez Chapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and Institutions Xiang Biao Chapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of China Zhang Jijiao Chapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore's Changing Demography, Identity, and Landscape Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam Chapter 5. A Transn…
Manipulating Ethnic Tradition
Focusing on a single funeral ceremony among the Toraja of Sulawesi, this article examines Toraja ethnic culture within broader-not only local but also national and globalsocioeconomic contexts, with special reference to the development of tourism in the region, and to Japanese television which filmed the funeral. In so doing, the paper attempts to depict the dynamic way in which an ethnic culture is staged in the contemporary postmodem setting.1
Transnational Migration in East Asia
This special two-day conference on migration, held May 31-June 1, 2007, at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, was one of the first and most comprehensive meetings of scholars on the full dimensions and implications of migration both to and from Japan. It was also a valuable opportunity to reconsider international migration from an East Asian vantage point ? and especially convenient for non-Japanese since the papers were wri…
The Public Anthropology of Disaster
On March 11, 2011, a mega-earthquake of 9.0 magnitude struck East Japan, followed by a huge tsunami. The earthquake and tsunami damaged vast areas, particularly along the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region, and killed approximately 20,000 people, including the missing. The Japanese government estimated the damage at about 17 trillion Japanese yen. However, the damage is immeasurable if the breakdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants i…
Anthropologies of Tourism
In memory of Dr. Valene L. Smith
Valene L. Smith is best known as the editor of the successful book Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. Her life was dedicated to the anthropological study of tourism. In this article commemorating her life, I look at her work, particularly from the Japanese context in which I developed my anthropological study of tourism. This year, 2024, marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Hosts and Guests. A classic book like this will b…
East Asian Anthropology
Bali
Celebrated for the richness of its artistic and religious traditions, the island of Bali has made its culture the brand image of its tourist product. This has aroused fears among foreign observers and indigenous authorities alike, who wonder in unison whether Balinese culture will survive the impact of tourism. But beyond the legitimate disquiet that it signals, this question is misleading, for it implies that tourism is an external force strikin…
Uma Minanga
This paper, part of a larger social anthropological study of the Sa'dan Toraja people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, deals with agricultural life on the basis of observations made from September 1976 to January 1978. The dominant mode of their agricultural system varies from wet-rice cultivation to dry-field and swidden cultivation, depending on the ecological conditions of the particular region. Here I present an ethnographic account of a village…
The Toraja Community in Ujung Pandang
Most studies on Southeast Asian cities have emphasized the capital cities (or “primate cities”), which are the cornerstones of their nation-building, while local cities have not received due attention. One of the basic assumptions underlying the present study is that a theoretical model can be built which will prove fruitful in the study of “middle-scale society,” While we already have a “micro” (conventional anthropological) model based on data …
Manipulating Ethnic Tradition
Focusing on a single funeral ceremony among the Toraja of Sulawesi, this article examines Toraja ethnic culture within broader-not only local but also national and globalsocioeconomic contexts, with special reference to the development of tourism in the region, and to Japanese television which filmed the funeral. In so doing, the paper attempts to depict the dynamic way in which an ethnic culture is staged in the contemporary postmodem setting.1
Indonesian into Japanese
29,1997. Oshikawa is the foremost translator o f Indonesian writing into Japanese.He was one o f a group o f people who were student radicals in the 1960s and who followed the reading group led by the historian Tsuchiya Kenji.These people form the core of Indonesianists of their generation in Japan, with the exception of the anthropologists who were not part o f the group. 1 found Oshikawa's remarks interesting for the glimpse they offer of the h…
Bali
Celebrated for the richness of its artistic and religious traditions, the island of Bali has made its culture the brand image of its tourist product. This has aroused fears among foreign observers and indigenous authorities alike, who wonder in unison whether Balinese culture will survive the impact of tourism. But beyond the legitimate disquiet that it signals, this question is misleading, for it implies that tourism is an external force strikin…
The Japanese Encounter with the South
This paper examines some sociocultural implications of Palauan tourism through the lens of Japanese tourists. In 1997, Palau had some seventy thousand international visitors, of whom more than twenty thousand were Japanese, second only to the Taiwanese, whose visits have been increasing rapidly in recent years. After discussing the general characteristics of tourism in Palau, I investigate the Japanese way of encountering Palau, not only through …
The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
The making of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
"Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic "world-system." The anthropological experience in this region has been varied. Japanese anthropology developed early, and ranks second only to that of the United States in terms of the number of acti…
Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia
Constructing Selves and Others in Japanese Anthropology
Responses to ‘“Other Anthropologies and Anthropology Otherwise”
Transnational Migration in East Asia
This special two-day conference on migration, held May 31-June 1, 2007, at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka, was one of the first and most comprehensive meetings of scholars on the full dimensions and implications of migration both to and from Japan. It was also a valuable opportunity to reconsider international migration from an East Asian vantage point ? and especially convenient for non-Japanese since the papers were wri…
Transnational Migration
The Japanese encounter with the South
Wind Over Water
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraord…
Wind over water
S. Eades Part I: Migrants, States, and Cities Chapter 1. Human Trade in Colonial Vietnam Nicolas Lainez Chapter 2. Wind through the Woods: Ethnography of Interfaces between Migration and Institutions Xiang Biao Chapter 3. Migrant Social Networks: Ethnic Minorities in the Cities of China Zhang Jijiao Chapter 4. Migration and DiverseCity: Singapore's Changing Demography, Identity, and Landscape Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam Chapter 5. A Transn…
The Public Anthropology of Disaster
On March 11, 2011, a mega-earthquake of 9.0 magnitude struck East Japan, followed by a huge tsunami. The earthquake and tsunami damaged vast areas, particularly along the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region, and killed approximately 20,000 people, including the missing. The Japanese government estimated the damage at about 17 trillion Japanese yen. However, the damage is immeasurable if the breakdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants i…
Tourism
East Asian Anthropology
Anthropologies of Tourism
J apan, Anthropology in
This entry discusses the development of anthropology research and teaching in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It traces the work of successive generations of Japanese scholars from the early days of armchair anthropology via the period of Japan's colonial expansion to the redevelopment of the discipline in the postwar period. The later part of the entry discusses the reasons why Japanese anthropology, despite a long his…
Reshaping Anthropology
This chapter reviews the history of Japanese anthropology since its foundation in 1884 and highlights its distinctive features and achievements. It examines Japanese anthropology in the wider contexts of world anthropologies and the main issues that contemporary Japanese anthropology faces. Japanese anthropologists are exploring the use of anthropological knowledge in a wider range of contexts, including practical fields such as the work of inter…
In memory of Dr. Valene L. Smith
Valene L. Smith is best known as the editor of the successful book Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism. Her life was dedicated to the anthropological study of tourism. In this article commemorating her life, I look at her work, particularly from the Japanese context in which I developed my anthropological study of tourism. This year, 2024, marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Hosts and Guests. A classic book like this will b…
Nelson H. H. Graburn - a tribute collection
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