Into the field : human scientists of transwar Japan /
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : men of one age -- The origins of fieldwork in the Japanese Empire -- Group fieldwork in wartime -- Objectivity under the U.S. occupation -- From "race" to "culture" -- Others into Japanese -- Japanese into others -- Excavating national identity in the antipodes -- 1968 and the passing of the field generation.
Into the Field is a collective biography of the generation of Japanese human scientists who created ""objective"" field knowledge of human diversity to support imperial expansionism and control before 1945, and modernization under U.S. auspices thereafter.
9781503610620
2019021215
Anthropologists--History--Japan--20th century. Anthropology--History--Japan--20th century. Social scientists--History--Japan--20th century. Social sciences--Japan--20th century. National characteristics, Japanese--History--20th century.