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On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology

On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology

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On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology

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On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology

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Wiley Periodicals, Inc

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American anthropologist, 2014-09, Vol.116 (3), p.658-662

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English

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Wiley Periodicals, Inc

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Takami Kuwayama writes about Kunio Yanagita, a Japanese folklorist who represents both cosmopolitan and nationalist perspectives on the state of anthropology throughout the world in the early to mid-20th century. In Japan, folkloristics developed as a twin discipline of ethnology as distinguished from jinruigaku (anthropology), the study of the phy...

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On Kunio Yanagita's 1934 "World Folkloristics" Project: A Precursor to World Anthropology

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1650148319

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1650148319

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0002-7294

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1548-1433

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10.1111/aman.12129

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