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Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita’s ‘mountain people’ to Umehara’s ‘Jōmon civilisation’, Japan has been an especially resonant site of prehistories imagined in response to modernity. Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism looks at how archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been used in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda. It is argued that the Japanese nationalist project has been mirrored by the continuing influence of broader Romantic ideas in Japanese archaeology, especially in Jōmon studies.

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Introduction: Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature ;
Chapter 1: Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism ;
Chapter 2: I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape ;
Chapter 3: Deep Japan: the spectre of strata ;
Chapter 4: Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology ;
Chapter 5: Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping

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      Publisher Archaeopress Access Archaeology
      Published 25 November 2021
      ISBN-13 9781803271149
      978-1803271149
      ISBN-10 1803271140
      Also in:
      Archaeological theory Archaeology by period / region Historiography

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita’s ‘mountain people’ to Umehara’s ‘Jōmon civilisation’, Japan has been an especially resonant site of prehistories imagined in response to modernity. Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism looks at how archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been used in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda. It is argued that the Japanese nationalist project has been mirrored by the continuing influence of broader Romantic ideas in Japanese archaeology, especially in Jōmon studies.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Modernity, the archaic and Japanese Nature ;
      Chapter 1: Huddle together, warm bodies pressing: the community of Japanese eco-nationalism ;
      Chapter 2: I had not seen this kind of mountain or forest before: fūdo as Gothic landscape ;
      Chapter 3: Deep Japan: the spectre of strata ;
      Chapter 4: Romantic nationalism and the new Jōmonology ;
      Chapter 5: Conclusions: the violence of Japanese world-shaping

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