Kunio Yanagida's Ethnography(<Special Issue>Reconsideration of the Current Theme "Fifty Years after the War")

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  • 柳田国男の民族観(<特集>「主題」の五〇年を再考する)
  • 柳田国男の民族観
  • ヤナギタ クニオ ノ ミンゾクカン

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The modern concept of race is founded upon the patriotic sentiment that the fate of a nation is directed by the universal Will. Therefore such abuses of the concept as found in totalitarianism have made racial sentiment "reactionary" or something to be transcended. But I would like to suggest that this tendency should now be corrected. In doing so Kunio Yanagida's ethnography would serve. He regards race as if it were bodily senses which have neither a definite form nor a universal Will towards wholeness. This image of race might make us imagine how the nation exists as a heterogeneous group.

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