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This essay critiques the dominant view of Japanese studies, and argues that it is occluded by a process of conceptual and methodological hegemony. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which this view came to be dominant, and exposes the extent to which it has occluded our view of Japan.
Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain conceptual and methodological and exposes the extent to which this process has occluded our view of Japan.
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