The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio
(Book #363 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962) was a public intellectual who played a pivotal role in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. A self-taught folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, he promoted folk studies in Japan. So extensive was his role that he has been compared with the fabled Grimm Brothers of Germany and the great British folklorist James G. Frazer (1854-1941), author of The Golden Bough . This monograph is only the second book-length English-language...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674492005
ISBN13:9780674492004
Release Date:September 2014
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.39 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"
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