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Article: Wartime Japanese Anthropology in Asia and the Pacific.(Book Review)
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- The Contemporary Pacific
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- September 22, 2005
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Wartime Japanese Anthropology in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Akitoshi Shimizu and Jan van Bremen. Senri Ethnological Studies 65. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2003. ISBN 4-901906-21-6 c3039; vii + 300 pages, tables, figures, photographs, notes, bibliography. [yen]1190.
In December 1999, a workshop on "Wartime Japanese Anthropology in Asia and Oceania" was held at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. The present volume is an outcome of that workshop. Since the end of World War II, Japanese wartime anthropology has been a field growing in stature and credibility, beginning as an outgrowth of Japanese colonization in Asia, as well as colonization by ...