Christopher S Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 543022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher S Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher S |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Folk spirituality, ghosts, and tsunami death-mitigation in Iwate, Japan
Anthropological studies of tsunami-related folk spirituality are rare. Yet historically, ghosts have often helped residents in Iwate, Japan to mitigate some unimaginable human losses resulting from each of three calamitous tsunami which have struck its coastline during the last 122 years. Among the many tsunami death-mitigating ghost tales recorded is Yanagita Kunio’s Kyūjū-Kyū-Wa: Ōtsunami (Story 99: The Giant Tsunami), first published in 1910. …
A History of Popular Culture in Japan from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
"A History of Popular Culture in Japan from the Seventeenth Century to the Present." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(3), pp. 67–68
Local Perspectives On the Tsunami Disaster
This article strives to give a voice to survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake who suffered from the tsunami but not the nuclear disaster; their invisibility makes the case that these survivors are a separate group of Japan's "abandoned people." They have been poorly represented in discussions on Japan's future energy policy; Thompson uses individual accounts to explain the residents' "short and long-term needs, the full social, cultural, a…
Japan's Showa Retro Boom
Chapter Nineteen. Population decline, municipal amalgamation, and the politics of folk performance preservation in northeast Japan
In rural Japan, post-war population decline is drastically changing the way local folk traditions are situated in community life. This chapter explores a relatively unknown consequence of the Great Heisei Era Amalgamation Initiative, instituted in 1999 as one of many state mandated decentralization policies designed to mediate the effects of the nation's declining total fertility rate currently at 1.26. The chapter begins with a historical overvi…
The Tour de France
In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event—in…
The Tour de France
In this highly original history of the world’s most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event—in…
Host produced rural tourism
The Ochiai Deer Dance
Enlisting on-line residents
Recruiting cyber townspeople
A Century of Organized Labor in France
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A Century of Organized Labor in France
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Enlisting on-line residents
Recruiting cyber townspeople
Host produced rural tourism
The Ochiai Deer Dance
The Tour de France
In this highly original history of the world’s most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event—in…
Chapter Nineteen. Population decline, municipal amalgamation, and the politics of folk performance preservation in northeast Japan
In rural Japan, post-war population decline is drastically changing the way local folk traditions are situated in community life. This chapter explores a relatively unknown consequence of the Great Heisei Era Amalgamation Initiative, instituted in 1999 as one of many state mandated decentralization policies designed to mediate the effects of the nation's declining total fertility rate currently at 1.26. The chapter begins with a historical overvi…
The Tour de France
In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event—in…
Japan's Showa Retro Boom
Local Perspectives On the Tsunami Disaster
This article strives to give a voice to survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake who suffered from the tsunami but not the nuclear disaster; their invisibility makes the case that these survivors are a separate group of Japan's "abandoned people." They have been poorly represented in discussions on Japan's future energy policy; Thompson uses individual accounts to explain the residents' "short and long-term needs, the full social, cultural, a…
Folk spirituality, ghosts, and tsunami death-mitigation in Iwate, Japan
Anthropological studies of tsunami-related folk spirituality are rare. Yet historically, ghosts have often helped residents in Iwate, Japan to mitigate some unimaginable human losses resulting from each of three calamitous tsunami which have struck its coastline during the last 122 years. Among the many tsunami death-mitigating ghost tales recorded is Yanagita Kunio’s Kyūjū-Kyū-Wa: Ōtsunami (Story 99: The Giant Tsunami), first published in 1910. …
A History of Popular Culture in Japan from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
"A History of Popular Culture in Japan from the Seventeenth Century to the Present." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(3), pp. 67–68
History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works)