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Japanese anthropologist (–)

Chie Nakane (中根 千枝, Nakane Chie, November 30, &#; October 12, )^{[citation needed]} was a Japanese anthropologist and Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at the University of Tokyo.^[1]

Education and career

Nakane was born in Tokyo and spent her teenage years in Beijing.^[2] She graduated from Tsuda College in and then completed her graduate work specializing in China and Tibet at the University of Tokyo in In –, she did fieldwork in India and studied in the London School of Economics.

Nakane served as visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago at the invitation of Sol Tax from to and as Visiting Lecturer in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London at the invitation of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf in –^[3]

In , Nakane became the first female professor at the University of Tokyo, where she served as Director of the Institute of Oriental Culture from to She was also Professor at Osaka University and the National Museum of Ethnology and visiting professor at Cornell University from to Nakane retired from the University of Tokyo in ^[4] In , she became the first and only female member of the Japan Academy.

She was also an honorary member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Japan as Vertical Society

Nakane's work focuses on cross-cultural comparisons of social structures in Asia, notably Japan, India, and China. She is internationally known for her bestselling book, Japanese Society, which has been translated into 13 languages.

In this book, Nakane characterizes Japan as "a vertical society" where human relations are based on "place" (shared space) instead of "attribute" (qualification).

Publications

Books

• Nakane, C. (). Kinship and economic organization in rural Japan.London: Athlone Press.
• Nakane, C. (). Japanese society.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Nakane, C. (). Human relations in Japan: Summary translation of “Tateshakai no Ningen Kankei.”Tokyo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.
• Nakane, C., & Chiao, C.

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(). Home bound: Studies in East Asian society—Papers presented at the symposium in honor of the 80th birthday of Professor Fei Xiaotong. Tokyo: Center for East Asian Cultural Studies and Toyo Bunko.

• Nakane, C., & Oishi, S. (Eds.). (). Tokugawa Japan: The social and economic antecedents of modern Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.

Articles

• Nakane, C.

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  Chie nakane biography of alberta king Perhaps because her innermost perspective was free and she kept her distance from the uniqueness of Japanese society. Nakane also formulates the criteria of 'attribute' and 'frame' to illuminate that way that groups are formed in Japan, and to compare Japan with other countries. Courtesy of Chuokoron Shinsha [March ]. Books [ edit ].

  Logic and the smile: When Japanese meet Indians. Japan Quarterly, 11(4), –

• Nakane, C. (). Towards a theory of Japanese social structure: A unilateral society. The Economic Weekly, 17(5–7), –
• Nakane, C. ().
  Chie nakane biography of alberta canada No reproduction or republication without written permission. Chie pleaded with a boarding house near the Akamon Red Gate of University of Tokyo, one of the symbols of the University to let her stay there. The facility restricted residents from bringing in luxury items. Nakane died of old age on October 12,

  Social background of Japanese in Southeast Asia. The Developing Economics, 10(2), –

• Nakane, C. (). Cultural anthropology in Japan. Annual Review of Anthropology, 3, 57–
• Nakane, C. (). A cross-cultural look at organizational behavior with particular attention to the difference between Japan and the United States.

  Linguistic Communications, 15, 95–

• Nakane, C. ().
  Chie nakane biography of alberta The experience in China shaped her into a broad-minded personality not bothered by little things and she took no notice of whether someone was a man or a woman. When I asked her if the reason she did not consider marriage was that she wanted to be free to immerse herself in research, she laughed and replied laconically. Twitter Facebook. It is important to have a passion and to apply oneself to something before life changes because of marriage or children.

  Fieldwork in India: A Japanese experience. In A. Beteille & T. N. Madan (Eds.), Encounter and experience: Personal accounts of fieldwork (pp.&#;13–26). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.

• Nakane, C. (). The effect of cultural tradition on anthropologists. In H. M. Fahim (Ed.), Indigenous anthropology in non-Western countries: Proceedings of a Burg Wartenstein symposium (pp.&#;52–60).
  Chie nakane biography of alberta health Article Talk. Nakane retired from the University of Tokyo in New photos show brutality against rallies for South Korea democracy June 16, Chie had collapsed in her apartment and was forced to spend several months in hospital.

  Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

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