Anthropology and Disaster in Japan

This book focuses on the 3.11 disaster in Japan, involving a powerful earthquake and tsunami, from an anthropological perspective.

Autorentext

Hiroki Takakura is Professor of Social Anthropology at Tohoku University, Japan. He is affiliated with the Center for Northeast Asian Studies and the Graduate School of Environmental Studies.

Inhalt

1 Introduction

2 The anthropologist as both victim and disaster researcher

3 Reflections from a survey of post-disaster intangible cultural heritage

4 The structural time in the folk performing arts

5 The strategies of the paddy farmers with indigenous knowledge

6 The norms of recovery among small-scale fisheries

7 Conclusions