Harumi Befu
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 90587 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harumi Befu |
| NOMBRES | Harumi |
| APELLIDO | Befu |
| FIRMA | BEFU H |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 251 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1958 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Empirical Status of Nihonjinron
Nihonjinron is a body of discourse which purports to demonstrate Japan’s cultural differences from other cultures and Japan’s cultural uniqueness in the world and thus tries to establish Japan’s cultural identity. It is said to be the worldview, the middle mass and the ideology of Everyman. While some Nihonjinron is serious academic discourse, a great bulk of Nihonjinron is discoursed in popular genre -in newspapers, television, radio, magazines …
Ecological View of History
An ecological view of history has to do with how history is accounted for in relation to the ecological conditions in which civilization is situated. The Japanese have developed a unique approach to understanding this issue. The idea that ecology has an impact on culture and history, and the philosophical underpinning of this particular Japanese approach, have their history in the pre‐World War II era. This entry provides a short review of the ge…
Ethnic Nationalism in Postwar Japan
Concepts of Japan, Japanese culture and the Japanese
Reams have been written to question, explore and define 'Japan', 'Japanese culture' and 'the Japanese', both by Japanese scholars and by foreign observers of Japan. Most of it is based on an unwitting existential assumption that 'Japan', 'Japanese culture' and 'the Japanese' are 'things' out there, whose objectively verifiable forms need only be ascertained. Much of the discussion has centred on the specificities of these forms. I submit that thi…
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 …
Nationalisms of Japan
Globalizing Japan
Globalization Theory from the Bottom Up
Received theories of globalization are mostly spun out of armchair speculation without hard empirical data. They also tend to be Western centered. Based on a considerable amount of empirical, ethnographic data made available by fellow Japan specialists, several concepts have been identified to help account for Japan's globalization. For example, some cultural products tend to maintain their authenticity while others are easily creolized . At time…
Symbols of nationalism and Nihonjinron
In 1947 Kiku to Katana, the Japanese translation of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict (1946), was published in Japan. It became an instant bestseller, and has been on the shelves of bookstores in Japan ever since. By now the Japanese version has seen eight separate editions, and has been reprinted at least 144 times. It is quite proper to say that the postwar Nihonjinron-the search for Japan’s identity, and cultural uniqueness-was …
Hegemony of Homogeneity
Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan
On the Margins of Japanese Society
Multicultural Japan
This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding the question of 'Japaneseness', the book traces the origins of the Japanese, examining Japan's indi…
Wrapping Culture
A proposed world association for Japanese studies∗
Japanese Cultural Identity
(1993). Japanese Cultural Identity. Japanstudien: Vol. 4, Symposium: Aspects of Value Change in Germany and Japan, pp. 89-102
Othernesses of Japan
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
The Creative Edge
Unwrapping Japan
From Paddy Field to Ski Slope
Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan
Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Group Model of Japanese Society and an Alternative
Civilization and Culture
Native Anthropology
Social Exchange
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan
Interpreting Japanese Society
Koreans in Japan
Patrilineal Descent and Personal Kindred in Japan1
Types of Corporate Unilineal Descent Groups
Japanese Usages of Terms of Relationship
Informal Fictive Kinship in Japan1
Globalization Theory from the Bottom Up
Received theories of globalization are mostly spun out of armchair speculation without hard empirical data. They also tend to be Western centered. Based on a considerable amount of empirical, ethnographic data made available by fellow Japan specialists, several concepts have been identified to help account for Japan's globalization. For example, some cultural products tend to maintain their authenticity while others are easily creolized . At time…
Ecology, Residence, and Authority
The Political Relation of the Village to the State
Almost everywhere in the world man lives in communities, and a vast majority of these communities are not independent political entities but are subject to political control from above. When village communities are under the control of a central authority, there necessarily arises the problem of working out a political relationship between the local communities and the central authority. This relationship is, of course, far from uniform. The mode…
Preceramic Cultures in Japan
On the Margins of Japanese Society
Hiroshi Watanabe, The Ainu Exocystem
Origin of Large Households and Duolocal Residence in Central Japan1
Until about seventy-five years ago there existed a small number of communities in central Japan where, with the exception of the household head who married virilocally, man and wife lived separately for life with their consanguines in households averaging fifteen members. Examination of hypotheses offered by various scholars to explain the large household size and the duolocal residence finds them wanting. It is suggested instead that the twin co…
Village Autonomy and Articulation with the State
When village communities exist in the context of a larger political system, understanding of the system of control at the village level requires analysis both of the system of control imposed on the village by the state and also of that which has evolved within the community through centuries of its existence. These two systems, of course, cannot operate altogether independently of each other but must somehow be articulated with one another. The …
Kinship Organization of the Saru Ainu
Contrastive Acculturation of California Japanese
Although there are innumerable studies of immigrants, not many of them are explicitly based on experimental designs that attempt to manipulate variables and to uncover causal factors. The comparative method, most successfully used by anthropologists, affords such a design, which can be applied to the study of immigrants
Classification of Unilineal-Bilateral Societies
Othernesses of Japan
The Role of the Fieldworker in an Explosive Political Situation [and Comments and Reply]
Political Complexity and Village Community
It is probably a truism to say that as society increases in political complexity, however this term may be defined, it tends to have a larger number of political offices. Is this feature of political evolution reflected in the political structure of the village communities within the society? Offhand, it seems reasonable to assume that it would be. For as a political system becomes more and more complex, there would be more and more delegation of…
A Prehistoric Maritime Culture of the Okhotsk Sea
This paper analyzes the culture history of the little-known Okhotsk culture and makes suggestions about its relationships with neighboring cultures. The Okhotsk culture is important in understanding the cultural history of the northern Pacific because it shows no affinities with the Ainu and Japanese cultures and has an economy remarkably like that of the more distant Aleut and Eskimo. The Okhotsk culture appears to have historical relationships …
Ancient Society and Morgan's Kinship Theory 100 Years After [and Comments and Reply]
The synchronic, antievolutionary approach to kinship has made it impossible to grasp its nature and define it adequately. Understanding of the phenomenon is tobe found in the implications of Morgan's distinction between the classificatory and descriptive systems of kinship. These systems are based respectively on the tribal and family organizations, each giving rise to a different notion of kinship: one as recognition of common identity in a mate…
Informal Fictive Kinship in Japan1
Japanese Usages of Terms of Relationship
Preceramic Cultures in Japan
Japanese place names in English
Kinship Organization of the Saru Ainu
General and Ethnology
Types of Corporate Unilineal Descent Groups
Patrilineal Descent and Personal Kindred in Japan1
Classification of Unilineal-Bilateral Societies
A Prehistoric Maritime Culture of the Okhotsk Sea
This paper analyzes the culture history of the little-known Okhotsk culture and makes suggestions about its relationships with neighboring cultures. The Okhotsk culture is important in understanding the cultural history of the northern Pacific because it shows no affinities with the Ainu and Japanese cultures and has an economy remarkably like that of the more distant Aleut and Eskimo. The Okhotsk culture appears to have historical relationships …
Befu's Rejoinder
Spare-time Specialist
The True Arch in Pre-Columbian America
Befu's Reply to Nelson
Village Autonomy and Articulation with the State
When village communities exist in the context of a larger political system, understanding of the system of control at the village level requires analysis both of the system of control imposed on the village by the state and also of that which has evolved within the community through centuries of its existence. These two systems, of course, cannot operate altogether independently of each other but must somehow be articulated with one another. The …
Contrastive Acculturation of California Japanese
Although there are innumerable studies of immigrants, not many of them are explicitly based on experimental designs that attempt to manipulate variables and to uncover causal factors. The comparative method, most successfully used by anthropologists, affords such a design, which can be applied to the study of immigrants
General
The Role of the Fieldworker in an Explosive Political Situation [and Comments and Reply]
Political Complexity and Village Community
It is probably a truism to say that as society increases in political complexity, however this term may be defined, it tends to have a larger number of political offices. Is this feature of political evolution reflected in the political structure of the village communities within the society? Offhand, it seems reasonable to assume that it would be. For as a political system becomes more and more complex, there would be more and more delegation of…
Evolution in a Contemporary Japanese Community
[in Japanese]
The Political Relation of the Village to the State
Almost everywhere in the world man lives in communities, and a vast majority of these communities are not independent political entities but are subject to political control from above. When village communities are under the control of a central authority, there necessarily arises the problem of working out a political relationship between the local communities and the central authority. This relationship is, of course, far from uniform. The mode…
General and Ethnology
Contemporary Change in Traditional Societies. Volume II
Gift-Giving in a Modernizing Japan
Ecology, Residence, and Authority
Sociology (47 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (43 obras) · History (40 obras) · Political science (39 obras) · Law (27 obras) · History (26 obras) · Computer Science (22 obras) · Library science (21 obras) · Anthropology (19 obras) · Law (18 obras)