Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism
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Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism

  1. 90 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism

About this book

Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita's 'mountain people' to Umehara's 'J?mon civilisation', Japan has been an especially resonant site of prehistories imagined in response to modernity. Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism looks at how archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been used in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsur? Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda. It is argued that the Japanese nationalist project has been mirrored by the continuing influence of broader Romantic ideas in Japanese archaeology, especially in J?mon studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About Access Archaeology
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Information
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Conventions
  8. Introduction. Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature
  9. Chapter 1. Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism
  10. Chapter 2. I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape
  11. Chapter 3. Deep Japan: the spectre of strata
  12. Chapter 4. Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology
  13. Chapter 5. Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping