Itineraries of an Anthropologist
Studies in Honour of Massimo Raveri
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abstract
This book is being dedicated to Massimo Raveri on the occasion of his retirement. It is designed to recreate the various thematic itineraries that he has traced and followed in his career. Each of the essays included represents a topic in which Prof. Raveri has shown great interest, paving the way for further studies. In offering these essays to him, his friends and colleagues are both bearing witness to his interest in such topics and contributing to their study. Contributions by former students of Prof. Raveri’s further show how these fields of study are being developed in his footsteps.
History of thought • Japanese studies • Anthropology of Japan • ‘Dialogical dialogue’ • Historiography • Japan • Satoyama • Apocalypticism • Japanese religions • Japanese Buddhism • Guru • Japanology • Contemporary Japan • New-new religions • Buddhism and music • Shugendō • Combinatory rituals • Environmental sustainability • Affect • Cultural heritage • Kagura • Buddhist wisdom • Japanese shamanism • Mountain beliefs • Sathya Sai Baba • Japanese Fascism • Pilgrimage • First public discourse • Shaman • Landscape • Iwashimizu Hachimangū • Mānasa Bhajare • Goryōe • Mindar • Japanese Imperialism • Philosophy of pure positive • Oxford • Aum Shinrikyō • Social anthropology • Gagaku • Philosophical truth • Shin-shin-shūkyō • Amidist Buddhism • Engi • Teachings • Hiyoshi Taisha • Robots • Shinbutsu • Massimo Raveri • AI • Path to salvation • Discourse analysis • Armageddon • Ritual • Second World War • Asahara Shōkō • Kumano • Polythetic class • Sutra of the Questions by Druma, King of the Kinna • Fascism • Philosophy of music (Japan)