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Hegemony of Homogeneity
An Anthropological
Analysis of Nihonjinron
by Harumi Befu
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In spite of rapid changes taking place in Japan, the
dominant identity discourse of Japan, Nihonjinron, has not vacated its
hegemonic position in the ideological landscape of common people.
Japanese intellectuals have been and are producing a massive and ever
increasing literature on the subject. In Hegemony of Homogeneity, Befu,
a bilingual anthropologist who has dedicated his past 40 years to
working on Japan, dissects, analyzes, and interprets this discourse by
consulting hundreds of original sources in Japanese. Nihonjinron
discourse is argued, among others, as a civil religion of the Japanese
and a creature responding to Japan’s changing geo-political and
geo-economic environment.
Published by Trans Pacific Press
Published 2001, 181 pp.
ISBN 1 876843 05 5, paperback, £19.99
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