A Japanese View of Nature

The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-7007-1631-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 335 g

Reihe: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English-speaking world. This book makes the complete text available in English for the first time and provides an extensive introduction and notes to set the work in context. Imanishi's work, based on a very wide knowledge of science and the natural world, puts forward a distinctive view of nature and how it should be studied. Imanishi's work is particularly important as a background to ecology, primatology and human social evolution theory in Japan. Imanishi's views on these subjects are extremely interesting because he formulated an approach to viewing nature which challenged the usual international ideas of the time, and which foreshadow approaches that have currency today.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Imanishi, Kinji

Asquith, Pamela J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Asquith, Pamela J.

Kawakatsu, Heita

Takasaki, Hiroyuki

Yagi, Shusuke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's preface Note on Japanese names The World of Living Things by Kinji Irnanislzi Author's preface 1 Similarity and difference 2 On structure 3 On environment 4 On society 5 On history

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela J. Asquith is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests are in the anthropology of science, comparative cultures of primatology and modern Japanese views of nature. Heita Kawakatsu is a Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan. His specialization is comparative socio-economic histo0ru and his research interests are intra-Asian competition and British Imperial History. Shusuke Yagi is Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies, Furman University, USA. His fields of research include transdisciplinary studies, modern Japanese literature and popular literature, non-western epistemology/ontology, and IT application to classroom teaching. Hiroyuki Takasaki is Associate Professor in the Department of Biosphere-Geosphere System Science at Okayama University of Science. Japan. His research areas are biological anthropology and primatology.