Gathering for the first time all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Levi-Strauss's early intellectual growth, and between ...
Gathering for the first time all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Levi-Strauss's early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he visited the country five times. The essays, lectures, and interviews of this volume, written between 1979 and 2001, are the product of these journeys. They investigate an astonishing range of subjects--among them Japan's founding myths, Noh and Kabuki theater, the distinctiveness of the Japanese musical scale, the artisanship of Jomon pottery, and the relationship between Japanese graphic arts and cuisine. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. Molded in the ancient past by Chinese influences, it had more recently incorporated much from Europe and the United States. But the substance of these borrowings was so carefully assimilated that Japanese culture never lost its specificity. As though viewed from the hidden side of the moon, Asia, Europe, and America all find, in Japan, images of themselves profoundly transformed. As in Levi-Strauss's classic ethnography Tristes Tropiques, this new English translation presents the voice of one of France's most public intellectuals at its most personal.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France (1959–1982).
Junzo Kawada is a cultural anthropologist in Japan.
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Foreword by Junzo Kawada
1. The Place of Japanese Culture in the World
2. The Hidden Face of the Moon
3. The White Hare of Inaba
4. Herodotus in the China Sea
5. Sengai: The Art of Accommodating Oneself to the World
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Foreword by Junzo Kawada
1. The Place of Japanese Culture in the World
2. The Hidden Face of the Moon
3. The White Hare of Inaba
4. Herodotus in the China Sea
5. Sengai: The Art of Accommodating Oneself to the World
6. Domesticating Strangeness
7. The Shameless Dance of Ame no Uzume
8. An Unknown Tokyo
9. Interview with Junzo Kawada
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人类学能给比文什么？An art of squinting: “Anthropology can be compared to astronomy at its very beginnings… Under the names of constellations, [our ancestors] distinguished groups lacking all physical reality, ...人类学能给比文什么？An art of squinting: “Anthropology can be compared to astronomy at its very beginnings… Under the names of constellations, [our ancestors] distinguished groups lacking all physical reality, each formed of stars that the eyes perceive as being on the same plane, even though they are located at fantastically different distances from earth."(展开)
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2 有用 胡桃夹子 2020-03-15 07:04:18
人类学能给比文什么？An art of squinting: “Anthropology can be compared to astronomy at its very beginnings… Under the names of constellations, [our ancestors] distinguished groups lacking all physical reality, ... 人类学能给比文什么？An art of squinting: “Anthropology can be compared to astronomy at its very beginnings… Under the names of constellations, [our ancestors] distinguished groups lacking all physical reality, each formed of stars that the eyes perceive as being on the same plane, even though they are located at fantastically different distances from earth." (展开)
0 有用 ichbinluz 2017-08-30 00:51:25
how to be a Japanophile by a sophisticated method?
0 有用 薄荷味桔子水儿 2014-01-22 08:58:55
我非常理解这种没有缘由的喜爱，即使对象是日本，莫名的喜欢日本的一切，作者对日本的喜爱在字里行间里满溢，甚至无法自拔的将日本文化对法国和美洲的影响拔高到让人有点反胃的程度。也难怪认同日本文化和行为的作者，对中国的很多“所作所为”颇为反感了。推荐阅读。
0 有用 鸿蒙太空 2024-07-26 06:34:56 美国
Japan is not just about the sun, but the moon
1 有用 MX 2017-07-30 21:39:21
一直没敢看这书，总觉得看完了Levi-Strauss在我心目中就要走下神坛了，看完了的确也是，您怎么这么不客观您怎么言语之间的喜爱根本掩盖不住啊！相比之下Margaret Lock真是极好的……因此非常喜欢最后和川田的那篇对谈，维持了那么一点balance感……