Conjuring up Prehistory : Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism.
Hudson, Mark J.
Conjuring up Prehistory : Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (90 pages)
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.
9781803271156
Archaeology--Japan.
Landscape archaeology--Japan.
Nationalism--Japan--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
DS815
952.01
Conjuring up Prehistory : Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (90 pages)
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.
9781803271156
Archaeology--Japan.
Landscape archaeology--Japan.
Nationalism--Japan--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
DS815
952.01