Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

Collana | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Miscellanea | Itineraries of an Anthropologist
Capitolo | Massimo Raveri, the Oxford School of Social Anthropology and Researching and Teaching on Japanese Society

Massimo Raveri, the Oxford School of Social Anthropology and Researching and Teaching on Japanese Society

Abstract

This paper explores the context in which Massimo Raveri has produced his corpus of work on Japan and explains how and why he has so successfully been able to cover such a wide range of topics – stretching from the pre-modern to the contemporary. It situates his work in the context of debates between those in the worlds of Japanology and Japanese Studies and considers how he and his work have acted as a bridge between the two. It also examines the influence on his work of the debates taking place in the Oxford School of Anthropology at the time that he studied in Oxford in the late 1970s and how his distinctive approach has influenced the social anthropology of Japan.


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Pubblicato 18 Ottobre 2021 | Lingua: en

Keywords Social anthropologyOxfordJapanologyJapanese studies


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