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

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 Yas...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2021.
©2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (90 pages)
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Table of 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.