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History
210 & Anthropology 275
Autumn 2012
TTh 12:00-2:00
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Tuesday
4:00-5:30
363-2005 Thursday
4:00-5:30 lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment
Required Books
Benedict, Ruth. The
Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Japan in Print
Bestor, Theodore. Neighborhood
Tokyo
Bestor, Theodore. Tsukiji:
The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Bix, Herbert. Hirohito
and the Making of Modern Japan
Dower, John. Embracing
Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Keene, Donald. Emperor
of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Lu, David, Japan: A
Documentary History
McCullough, Helen. Classical
Japanese Prose: An Anthology
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time
Rupp, Katherine. Gift-Giving
in Japan
Souyri, Pierre François. The World Turned Upside Down
Varley, Paul. Japanese
Culture
Hacker, Diana. A
Pocket Style Manual.
All books are on library reserve
Course Description
This course will examine Japanese history and culture in
the context of the wider East Asian world.
We will begin with early Japanese history and the influence of both
Korea and China on early Japanese institutions.
We will then examine the development of Japan’s indigenous traditions
during the Heian (794-1185), Kamakura (1185-1333), and Ashikaga (1336-1568)
periods. The second half of the course
will deal with modern Japanese history and culture, paying equal attention to
historical and ethnographic materials, and taking a careful look at the
development of the Kanto and Kansai regions in modern Japanese history and
culture. Throughout the course we will
use examples from the Japanese language—spoken phrases, the two major
syllabaries (hiragana and katakana), and kanji, or Chinese characters—to analyze Japanese history and culture in linguistic
context.
Evaluation
Language exercises 5%
Quizzes/attendance 10%
Source Essay 15%
Midterm assignment 25%
Final Exam 15%
Paper 30%
Daily attendance
and class participation are expected; absences during the semester will
affect your grade. Late assignments will
be penalized.
History
210 & Anthropology 275
Japanese
History and Culture
Autumn 2012
Second Module: Weeks 9-16
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| [b] History RF |
Week IX
Contemporary
Japanese Culture II
Rice, Self, and Samurai
Tuesday, October 23 (Film in Class)
Kurosawa,
The Seven Samurai (七人の侍)
Part One
Part Two
Thursday, October 25
Ohnuki-Tierney,
Rice as Self
Food as a Metaphor of
Self: An Exercise in Historical Anthropology
Rice and Rice Agriculture
Today
Rice as a Staple Food?
Rice in Cosmogony and
Cosmology
Rice as Self, Rice Paddies
as Our Land
Rice in the Discourse of
Selves and Others
Foods as Selves and Others
in Cross-cultural Perspective
Symbolic Practice through
Time: Self, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Midterm Assignment Due in my Office (MI 111)
Week X
Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Japan (c. 1800- c. 1900)
Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Japan (c. 1800- c. 1900)
Tuesday, October 30
Keene, Emperor of
Japan: 1-209
Thursday, November 1
Keene, Emperor of
Japan: 210-415
Language Exercises Due by 5:00 p.m.
on Friday, November 2nd
Week XI
The Late Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras (c. 1900-1945)
The Late Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras (c. 1900-1945)
Tuesday, November 6
Bix, Hirohito and
the Making of Modern Japan: 21-232
Part I: The Prince’s Education, 1901-1921
The Boy, the Family, and the Meiji Legacies
Cultivating an Emperor
Confronting the Real World
Part II: The Politics of Good Intentions
The Regency and the Crisis of Taisho Democracy
The New Monarchy and the New Nationalism
A Political Monarch Emerges
Thursday, November 8
Bix, Hirohito and
the Making of Modern Japan: 233-530
Part III: His Majesty’s Wars, 1931-1945
The Manchurian Transformation
Restoration and Repression
Holy War
Stalemate and Escalation
Prologue to Pearl Harbor
The Ordeal of Supreme Command
Delayed Surrender
Language
Exercises Due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 9th
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| [c] Era RF |
Tuesday, November 13
Dower, Embracing
Defeat: 19-275
Part I: Victor and Vanquished
Shattered Lives
Gifts from Heaven
Part II: Transcending Despair
Kyodatsu:
Exhaustion and Despair
Cultures of Defeat
Bridges of Language
Part III: Revolutions
Neocolonial Revolution
Embracing Revolution
Making Revolution
Thursday, November 15
Dower, Embracing
Defeat: 277-564
Part IV: Democracies
Imperial Democracy: Driving the Wedge
Imperial Democracy: Descending Partway from
Heaven
Imperial Democracy: Evading Responsibility
Constitutional Democracy: GHQ Writes a New
National Charter
Constitutional Democracy: Japanizing the
American Draft
Censoring Democracy: Policing the New Taboos
Part V: Guilts
Victor’s Justice, Loser’s Justice
What Do You Tell the Dead When You Lose?
Part VI:
Reconstructions
Engineering Growth
Epilogue: Legacies/Fantasies/Dreams
Language Exercises Due by 5:00 p.m.
on Friday, November 16th
Week XIII
Contemporary Japanese Culture III—Early Postwar Reflections from America
Contemporary Japanese Culture III—Early Postwar Reflections from America
Tuesday, November 20
Benedict, The
Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Assignment: Japan
The Japanese in the War
Taking One’s Proper Station
The Meiji Reform
Debtor to the Ages and the World
Repaying One-Ten-Thousandth
The Repayment ‘Hardest to Bear’
Clearing One’s Name
The Circle of Human Feelings
The Dilemma of Virtue
Self-Discipline
The Child Learns
The Japanese Since VJ-Day
Week XIV
Contemporary
Japanese Culture IV— Urban Anthropology
Tuesday, November 27
Bestor, Neighborhood
Tokyo: 1-161
Introduction
Miyamoto-cho, a Portrait
The Development of a Neighborhood
Local Politics and Administration
Community Services and Neighborhood Events
Thursday, November 29
Bestor,
Neighborhood Tokyo: 162-268
Formal Hierarchies of Participation and Power
Friends and Neighbors
The Festival and the Local Social Order
Conclusion
Language Exercises Due by 5:00 p.m.
on Friday. November 30th
Week XV
Contemporary Japanese Culture V—Market, Nation, World
Contemporary Japanese Culture V—Market, Nation, World
Tuesday, December 5
Bestor, Tsukiji: 1-176
Tokyo’s Pantry
Grooved Channels
From Landfill to Marketplace
The Raw and the Cooked
Thursday, December 7
Bestor, Tsukiji:
177-313
Visible Hands
Family/Firm
Trading Places
Full Circle
Language Exercises Due by 5:00 p.m.
on Friday, December 8th
Week XVI
Contemporary
Japanese Culture VI—Review
Tuesday, December 12
In-class
final exam (ninety minutes).
Final
Paper Due Wednesday, December 13th by 5:00 p.m.
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