Conjuring up Prehistory : Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism.

By: Hudson, Mark JMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (90 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781803271156Subject(s): Archaeology--Japan | Landscape archaeology--Japan | Nationalism--Japan--History--20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conjuring up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese NationalismDDC classification: 952.01 LOC classification: DS815Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- About Access Archaeology -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Introduction. Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature -- Chapter 1. Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism -- Chapter 2. I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape -- Chapter 3. Deep Japan: the spectre of strata -- Chapter 4. Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology -- Chapter 5. Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping.
Summary: This study considers the ways in which archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been appropriated in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda.
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Cover -- About Access Archaeology -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Introduction. Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature -- Chapter 1. Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism -- Chapter 2. I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape -- Chapter 3. Deep Japan: the spectre of strata -- Chapter 4. Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology -- Chapter 5. Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping.

This study considers the ways in which archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been appropriated in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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