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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bremen, Jan

Titel

Indonesian studies in Japanese anthropology

Ist Teil von

• Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 1988-01, Vol.144 (2), p.248-258

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Brill

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mabuchi Tichi, for example, after prolonged fieldwork among the indigenous peoples of Taiwan in the 1930s, did field research in Celebes in 1943. Since the Second World War, and especially during the .past fifteen years, fieldwork has increased tremendously in Japanese anthropology. [...]as an illustration of the kind of individual research being done on Indonesia in this institution, I shall take as an example the work of a new member, Sugishima Takashi, who joined the Second Research Department of the Museum in 1987, and recently worked among the Lionese of Central Flores. Taking the Society's output as a whole, the review lists about 5,000 Japanese-language publications and around 600 publications in foreign languages by the members in the period concerned, who also translated roughly 300 foreign papers and books into Japanese. [...]as Okada Hiroaki calculated, between 1964 and 1983, members of the Japanese Society of Ethnology on average published one study in twelve in a language other than Japanese, in 99% of the cases in English.4 The question is, how much of this material finds its way into the studies of others and how much is utilized of what is available. [...]ideas from foreign studies predominate in Uno's Maraishiya ni okeru tmai 256 Jan van Bremen girei (Uno 1940). Besides his ethnographic information, Uno took some of his ideas and concepts, for example the notion of soul-substance (reishitsu), from Western anthropologists such as A. C. Kruyt, making him the first first to stress its significance in Japan (It 1978:221).