3,900,000 Yen
(Direct Cost: 3,000,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 900,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
This project investigates how anthropologist Oka Masao (1898-1982) combined elements from European and Japanese reasearch traditions in his theory of Japanese ethnogenesis, thereby situating the emergence of ethnology as an academic discipline in Japan in its global historical context.