The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

Minpaku Anthropology Newsletter

Minpaku Anthropology Newsletter is published semi-annually, in June and December. The Newsletter promotes a continuing exchange of information with 'Minpaku fellows' who have been attached to the Museum as visiting scholors from overseas. The Newsletter also provides a forum for communication with a wider academic and anthropological audience.
Number 35 The Anthropological Study of Humans and Textiles

December 1, 2012 Publication

Number 35 (December. 2012) (PDF FILE =>4.42MB)

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Discardable and Undiscardable Textiles and Clothing
Teruo Sekimoto
Urban Transformations in the Value of Used and Old Textiles
Ilja Van Damme
Shifting Functions of Two Major Second Hand Clothing Markets in 17th–18th Century Edo: Tomizawa and Yanagihara
Miki Sugiura
Sacred Rag, Shoddy Rag
Ulara Tamura
Regaining 'Fashion' Value: The Transborder Trading of Second-hand Clothing in East Africa
Sayaka Ogawa