Walter Edwards

Biographic Data

ID3621638
NAMEWalter Edwards
GIVEN NAMESWalter
FAMILY NAMEEdwards
SIGNATUREEDWARDS W
AFFILIATIONSTenri University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS67
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX4

  • Aspectual In African American vernacular English in Detroit

    Open AccessWalter F Edwards, Walter EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2001Cited by: 1

  • Investigation of a subterranean tomb in Miyazaki, Japan

    Open AccessWalter Edwards, Masaaki Okita et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Prospection2000

    A subterranean chamber tomb in Miyazaki, Japan was investigated in an experimental programme combining remote sensing, excavation and scientific analysis of the materials recovered. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) was used to locate the tomb, for which no visible surface markers remained. The approach to the tomb was then excavated to expose the sealed entrance to the burial chamber, through which a small hole was bored for the insertion of a mini…

  • Packaged Japaneseness

    Walter Edwards, Ofra Goldstein-GidoniARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2000

    Examines what is called the Ceremonial Occasions industry in Japan, in particular the commercialized production of contemporary weddings there. Based on anthropological fieldwork conducted in a wedding parlour

  • Contested Access

    Walter EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2000Cited by: 2

  • Mirrors on Ancient Yamato

    Walter EdwardsARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1999Cited by: 2

    T A PRESS conference held on 9 January 1998, archaeologists announced the discovery of a large cache of bronze mirrors at Kurozuka kofun i tl,, an early keyhole-shaped tomb located in the southeast portion of the Nara basin. The 128-meter mound had been under excavation by the prefectural Kashihara Archaeological Institute MIq: f tPR since August of the previous year; by late October its stone burial chamber yielded the first of what proved to be…

  • Multicultural Japan

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1997Cited by: 3

  • Perspectives on Race and Culture in Japanese Society

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1997

    This text provides, in English, up-to-date directions and findings on Japan's history, exploring Japanese nationalism and its expression not only in serious anthropological studies but in the popular media. Merging various related disciplines in a single work, it examines the latest archaeological excavations and recent Japanese interpretations, biology, genetics, and paleoanthropology in terms of their contribution to an understanding of racial …

  • In Pursuit of Himiko. Postwar Archaeology and the Location of Yamatai

    Walter F Edwards, Walter EdwardsARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1996Cited by: 3

  • Early Buddhist temples in Japan

    Yamamoto Tadanao, Walter EdwardsARTICLEWorld Archaeology1995Cited by: 1References: 1

    Buddhism is considered to have been introduced to Japan from Paekche in AS 538. From that time on edifices of some kind probably existed for housing Buddhist images, although this has not yet been confirmed archaeologically. The construction of Asukadera, the first Buddhist temple compound, began in 588. By 624 more than twenty such temples had been built in Yamato and other provinces in the central Kinai district; all were characteristically ini…

  • Japanese Social Organization

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1994

  • The Historic City of Nara

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1994

  • Re-made in Japan

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1993Cited by: 20

    Introduction - domesticating the west the Depaato - merchandising the west while selling Japaneseness For Beautiful Human Life - the use of English in Japan tractors, TV, and telephones - reach out and touch someone in a village the bath - extraordinarily ordinary messages of western style in home magazines reclaiming social and psychological space in a institution for the elderly drinking etiquette in a changing beverage market ordering in a Fre…

  • Unwrapping Japan

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1991Cited by: 7

  • Protohistoric Yamato

    Walter Edwards, Gina L BarnesARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1991

    Formation de l'Etat durant le Japon protohistorique, depuis le Yayoi Ancien jusqu'au Kofun Final (300 av. J.-C., 710 apr. J.-C.). L'archeologie de la riziculture (le bassin de Nara, nature des donnees archeologiques, les sites de surface et leur representativite). L'installation du bassin de Nara (organisation territoriale, installation et statuts dans une societe stratifiee ancienne, emergence de l'etat de Yamato). Glossaire. Appendices : donnee…

  • Buried Discourse

    Walter EdwardsARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1991Cited by: 4

  • Modern Japan through Its Weddings

    Donald Roden, Donald T Roden et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1991Cited by: 17

    Introduction 1. The performance 2. Background 3. The actors 4. The stage and its managers 5. Imaging the marital ideal 6. Gender, person, and society Conclusion Notes Index

  • Modern Japan through its Weddings

    Joy Hendry, Walter F Edwards et al.ARTICLEMan1991

  • Modern Japan Through Its Weddings. Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal

    Margret Neuss-Kaneko, Walter F Edwards et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1990

  • Modern Japan Through Its Weddings

    Dorinne Kondo, Walter F Edwards et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home

    Walter Edwards, Michael Jeremy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1990

  • Modern Japan Through Its Weddings

    Kinko Ito, Walter F Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1990

  • Modern Japan Through Its Weddings

    Walter EdwardsBOOKModern Japan Through Its Weddings1989

  • Modern Japan Though Its Wedding

    David W Plath, Walter F Edwards et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989

  • Neighborhood Tokyo

    Walter F Edwards, Walter Edwards et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989

  • Suurin, Koocharin, and Grannin in Guyana

    Walter F Edwards, Walter EdwardsARTICLEAmerican Speech1989

    T HREE RELATED TYPES OF DISCOURSE used by black speakers in Guyana are known as suurin [surin], koocharin [kocarin], and grannin [granin]. These behaviors are similar to speech practices used by blacks in the United States, and they are similar to each other in that the illocutionary point of the utterances of the main speaker is to get the auditor(s) to do something of benefit to the speaker. The illocutionary intention of suurers and koocharers…