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A Japanese View of Nature

The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi

By Kinji Imanishi

Edited by Pamela J. Asquith

Introduction by Pamela J. Asquith

Foreword by Joy Hendry

Translated by Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Hiroyuki Takasaki, Shusuke Yagi

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge – 160 pages

Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

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    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.

    Author Bio

    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.

    Name: A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: By Kinji ImanishiEdited by Pamela J. AsquithIntroduction by Pamela J. AsquithForeword by Joy HendryTranslated by Pamela J. Asquith, Heita Kawakatsu, Hiroyuki Takasaki, Shusuke Yagi. 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...
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