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Author Kadia, Miriam Kingsberg, 1981- author.

Title Into the field : human scientists of transwar Japan / Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 09, 2020)
Subject Anthropologists -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Anthropology -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Social scientists -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Social sciences -- Japan -- 20th century
National characteristics, Japanese -- History -- 20th century
Anthropologists
Anthropology
Intellectual life
National characteristics, Japanese
Social sciences
Social scientists
SUBJECT Japan -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069535
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019021215
ISBN 9781503610620
1503610624