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

Minpaku Anthropology Newsletter

Number 6

June 1, 1998 Publication

Number 6 (Jun. 1998) (PDF FILE)

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Japanese Studies in Europe
Josef Kreiner
Some Observations on Japanese Studies Abroad
Isao Kumakura
John Embree in Reverse:Loose Structures in Thailand and Close Structures in Japan?
Stephen Sparkes
‘Mono no yorokobi’ and ‘Mono no aware’: Thoughts Inspired at the Lotus Appreciation Gathering
Jia Huixuan
Representation of Cultures: ‘Images of Other Cultures’
Arapata Tamati
Structural Reorganisation at Minpaku
Yasuhiko Nagano
What is inside? Forays and X-rays into the Ethnographic Objects
Tsuneyuki Morita
Japanese Civilization in the Modern World: Comparative Studiesof Formation and Transformation of Nation States
Eisei Kurimoto
The Twentieth Century as Era of Language
Hiroshi Shoji