Takami Kuwayama
Biographic Data
| ID | 643394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Takami Kuwayama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Takami |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuwayama |
| SIGNATURE | KUWAYAMA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5433-8012 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Making of Japanese Anthropology: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
Cet article synthétise l’histoire complexe et souvent méconnue de l’anthropologie japonaise, depuis ses origines au XIXe siècle, marquées par les débats sur les liens généalogiques entre les Japonais et les Ainu, jusqu’à son imbrication dans l’expansion impériale et sa réinvention d’après-guerre. Il explore comment des pionniers comme Shōgorō Tsuboi et Ryūzō Torii ont posé les fondations de la discipline, mêlant les influences théoriques européen…
Japanese Anthropology
This essay shows the multiple sources of influence on the formation of Japanese anthropology since the late nineteenth century, when the genealogical relationship between the Japanese and the Ainu attracted national attention. After the first overseas fieldwork by Japanese anthropologists in 1895, the year of Japan’s victory in the war with China, cultural anthropology, or ethnology as it was then called, developed along with the expansion of the…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Jōmin
Jōmin is a central concept in Kunio Yanagita's research into Japanese folklore. The founder of Japanese folklore studies, or folkloristics, Yanagita (1875–1962), invented the term by combining two characters: jō (also pronounced tsune ), used either as a noun or a modifier, meaning “usual,” “ordinary,” “average,” or “conventional,” and min , a noun meaning “people.” Jōmin thus means “common people,” as distinguished from both elites in the ruling…
Ie
Ie means “house” in Japanese but is often applied to a group of people residing in the same house to make a living together. This semantic shift is evident in the definitions given in the authoritative dictionary Köjien (5th edition, 1998): (1) a structure for residence; (2) a collectivity of people living in the same house; and (3) a kinship group with common ancestors and property handed down from generation to generation. The sociological and …
Japanese anthropology, neoliberal knowledge structuring, and the rise of audit culture: Lessons from the academic world system
Placing my earlier arguments about the marginality of Japanese anthropology in the world in both historical and comparative perspectives, this article examines the influence of two important recent developments on the status of Japanese and, more broadly, East Asian scholarship – the impact of neoliberalism on, and the spread of audit culture within, higher education. Special attention is paid to the increasing importance attached to world univer…
Ba
In Japanese, ba means “place” or “field.” However, it has so many other meanings that it is difficult to find a single English word for it. Furthermore, it is associated with the Japanese belief that a person's behavior is induced or actually caused by the place in which that person is situated. Thus, ba not only indicates a physical space, but also illuminates the Japanese notion of accountability. When it is applied in the analysis of social re…
On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural transformation that took place over the course of …
Yanagita, Kunio (1875–1962)
Kunio Yanagita is widely regarded as the founder of Japanese folklore studies or folkloristics. His influence transcended disciplinary boundaries and was felt in many other fields, including sociology and anthropology. Even today, he continues to be discussed, both inside and outside academic circles. Although little known outside East Asia, Yanagita is indisputably one of the intellectual giants of the modern world
The “World-System” of Anthropology: Japan and Asia in the Global Community of Anthropologists
"Natives" as dialogic partners: Some thoughts on native anthropology
Gasshuku: Off-Campus Training in the Japanese School
This article describes and analyzes off-campus training called gasshuku in Japanese middle and high schools. It shows how Japan's cultural themes and values are created and re-created in the school. Gasshuku, with its highly structured events to regiment young students, functions as an initiation cere- mony or rite of passage into adulthood in today's industrial Japan. TheJapanese school as seen through gasshuku embodies the "trinity" of educatio…
Situated Meaning: Inside and outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language
Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination--an organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan--and focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range of cultural practices and orientations in terms of such relational concepts as uchi (inside) and soto (outside). Evolving from a shared theoretical fo…
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
A Japanese Anthropologist's Response to “Contested Pasts and the Practice of Anthropology
The "Power" of Culture
Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions. Edward Norbeck and Margaret Lock
"Natives" as dialogic partners: Some thoughts on native anthropology
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Gasshuku: Off-Campus Training in the Japanese School
This article describes and analyzes off-campus training called gasshuku in Japanese middle and high schools. It shows how Japan's cultural themes and values are created and re-created in the school. Gasshuku, with its highly structured events to regiment young students, functions as an initiation cere- mony or rite of passage into adulthood in today's industrial Japan. TheJapanese school as seen through gasshuku embodies the "trinity" of educatio…
On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology
The "Power" of Culture
Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan: Cultural and Social Dimensions. Edward Norbeck and Margaret Lock
A Japanese Anthropologist's Response to “Contested Pasts and the Practice of Anthropology
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
Situated Meaning: Inside and outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language
Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination--an organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan--and focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range of cultural practices and orientations in terms of such relational concepts as uchi (inside) and soto (outside). Evolving from a shared theoretical fo…
Gasshuku: Off-Campus Training in the Japanese School
This article describes and analyzes off-campus training called gasshuku in Japanese middle and high schools. It shows how Japan's cultural themes and values are created and re-created in the school. Gasshuku, with its highly structured events to regiment young students, functions as an initiation cere- mony or rite of passage into adulthood in today's industrial Japan. TheJapanese school as seen through gasshuku embodies the "trinity" of educatio…
"Natives" as dialogic partners: Some thoughts on native anthropology
The “World-System” of Anthropology: Japan and Asia in the Global Community of Anthropologists
Yanagita, Kunio (1875–1962)
Kunio Yanagita is widely regarded as the founder of Japanese folklore studies or folkloristics. His influence transcended disciplinary boundaries and was felt in many other fields, including sociology and anthropology. Even today, he continues to be discussed, both inside and outside academic circles. Although little known outside East Asia, Yanagita is indisputably one of the intellectual giants of the modern world
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural transformation that took place over the course of …
On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology
Jōmin
Jōmin is a central concept in Kunio Yanagita's research into Japanese folklore. The founder of Japanese folklore studies, or folkloristics, Yanagita (1875–1962), invented the term by combining two characters: jō (also pronounced tsune ), used either as a noun or a modifier, meaning “usual,” “ordinary,” “average,” or “conventional,” and min , a noun meaning “people.” Jōmin thus means “common people,” as distinguished from both elites in the ruling…
Ie
Ie means “house” in Japanese but is often applied to a group of people residing in the same house to make a living together. This semantic shift is evident in the definitions given in the authoritative dictionary Köjien (5th edition, 1998): (1) a structure for residence; (2) a collectivity of people living in the same house; and (3) a kinship group with common ancestors and property handed down from generation to generation. The sociological and …
Japanese anthropology, neoliberal knowledge structuring, and the rise of audit culture: Lessons from the academic world system
Placing my earlier arguments about the marginality of Japanese anthropology in the world in both historical and comparative perspectives, this article examines the influence of two important recent developments on the status of Japanese and, more broadly, East Asian scholarship – the impact of neoliberalism on, and the spread of audit culture within, higher education. Special attention is paid to the increasing importance attached to world univer…
Ba
In Japanese, ba means “place” or “field.” However, it has so many other meanings that it is difficult to find a single English word for it. Furthermore, it is associated with the Japanese belief that a person's behavior is induced or actually caused by the place in which that person is situated. Thus, ba not only indicates a physical space, but also illuminates the Japanese notion of accountability. When it is applied in the analysis of social re…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Japanese Anthropology
This essay shows the multiple sources of influence on the formation of Japanese anthropology since the late nineteenth century, when the genealogical relationship between the Japanese and the Ainu attracted national attention. After the first overseas fieldwork by Japanese anthropologists in 1895, the year of Japan’s victory in the war with China, cultural anthropology, or ethnology as it was then called, developed along with the expansion of the…
The Making of Japanese Anthropology: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
Cet article synthétise l’histoire complexe et souvent méconnue de l’anthropologie japonaise, depuis ses origines au XIXe siècle, marquées par les débats sur les liens généalogiques entre les Japonais et les Ainu, jusqu’à son imbrication dans l’expansion impériale et sa réinvention d’après-guerre. Il explore comment des pionniers comme Shōgorō Tsuboi et Ryūzō Torii ont posé les fondations de la discipline, mêlant les influences théoriques européen…
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