Introduction : men of one age -- The origins of fieldwork in the Japanese Empire -- Group fieldwork in wartime -- Objectivity under the U.S. occupation -- From "race" to "culture" -- Others into Japanese -- Japanese into others -- Excavating national identity in the antipodes -- 1968 and the passing of the field generation.
Summary
Into the Field is a collective biography of the generation of Japanese human scientists who created ""objective"" field knowledge of human diversity to support imperial expansionism and control before 1945, and modernization under U.S. auspices thereafter.
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