M.Tanaka - Publications

MASAKAZU TANAKA :: Department of Anthropology, Gender & Sexuality Studies

INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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Selected PUBLICATIONS

Books

1997 Ritual and Power among the Tamil Fishermen of Sri Lanka. Manohar (New Delhi). /English

1998 (ed.) Cultural Anthropology of Violence. Kyoto University Academic Press (Kyoto). /Japanese

1998 (ed.) Goddesses: Anthropology of Sacredness, Gender and Sexuality. Heibonsya (Tokyo). /Japanese

1999 (co-ed.) Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. Senri Ethnological Studies No.50 (The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka). /English

2002 Transformation of The Sacrificial World: Historical Anthropology of South Asia. Hozoukan(Kyoto) /Japanese.

2002(co-ed.) Colonialism and Anthropology. Kuansai Gakuin University Press (Nishinomiya)/Japanese.

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(2002) 2002 (co-ed.) Colonialism and Anthropology. Kuansai Gakuin University Press (Nishinomiya).
Language: Japanese.

About this book: Colonialism and Anthropology was published in 2002. It consists of 21 articles regarding on Asia, Africa and West Indies, and South America. It especially focuses on the Japanese history of colonization in East Asia.
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(2002) 2002 Transformation of The Sacrificial World: Historical Anthropology of South Asia. Hozoukan (Kyoto).
Language: Japanese.
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(1999) Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia (co-ed. by Musashi TACHIKAWA and Masakazu TANAKA) Senri Ethnological Studies No. 50 (The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, JAPAN). >> Get This Book

Year	BOOKS	Order
(2002)	2002 (co-ed.) Colonialism and Anthropology. Kuansai Gakuin University Press (Nishinomiya). Language: Japanese. About this book: Colonialism and Anthropology was published in 2002. It consists of 21 articles regarding on Asia, Africa and West Indies, and South America. It especially focuses on the Japanese history of colonization in East Asia.	>> Get This Book
(2002)	2002 Transformation of The Sacrificial World: Historical Anthropology of South Asia. Hozoukan (Kyoto). Language: Japanese.	>> Get This Book
(1999)	Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia (co-ed. by Musashi TACHIKAWA and Masakazu TANAKA) Senri Ethnological Studies No. 50 (The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, JAPAN).	>> Get This Book

Translations

1997 Goddess:Mother of Living Nature by Adele Getty. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. (Heibonsha)

2001 Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont. 1980. (Misuzu Shobo)

Year Image TRANSLATIONS Order
(2001) 2001 Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont. 1980. (Misuzu Shobo).
Louis Dumont's major work, Homo Hierarchicus was translated into Japanese. It took me and my co-translator, Prof Kozo Watanabe fifteen years.
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(1997) 1997 Goddess: Mother of Living Nature by Adele Getty. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. (Heibonsha) >> Get This Book

Year	Image	TRANSLATIONS	Order
(2001)		2001 Homo Hierarchicus by Louis Dumont. 1980. (Misuzu Shobo). Louis Dumont's major work, Homo Hierarchicus was translated into Japanese. It took me and my co-translator, Prof Kozo Watanabe fifteen years.	>> Get This Book
(1997)		1997 Goddess: Mother of Living Nature by Adele Getty. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. (Heibonsha)	>> Get This Book

Articles

2002 From Subject to the Community of Agency: On Everyday Practice in an Anthropological Perspective. In S.TANABE and M.MATSUDA (eds.) Ethnography of Everyday Practice: Narrative, Community and Identity. Kyoto:Sekaishisosya/Japanese.

2001 Hinduism in Singapore: A Case of Ethno-nationalization, J.KOizumi (ed.) Dynamics of Cultures and Systems in the Pacific Rim

2000 Sacrifice Lost and Found: Colonial India and Postcolonial Lanka, Zinbun 34(1):127-146.

1999 Introduction: Writing on Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. In Masakazu Tanaka and Musashi Tachikawa eds., Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. SES 50:3-17. /English

1999 The Navaratri Festival in Chidambaram, South India. In Masakazu Tanaka and Musashi Tachikawa eds., Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. SES 50:117-135. English

1998 Village and Pilgrimage Site: Two Kinds of Christianity in India. In T. Yamaori (ed.) How did the Japanese Accept Christianity. Kyoto: International Center for Japanese Studies. /Japanese

1998 Transformation of Women into Goddesses: Deification in South Asia. In M.Tanaka (ed.) Goddess: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. Tokyo: Heibonsha. /Japanese

1998 Defying blessings of the goddess and the community: Disputes over sati (widow burning) in contemporary IndiaIn M. Tanaka (ed.) Cultural Anthropology of Violence. Kyoto: Kyoto University Academic Press. /Japanese

1997 Hinoki (Japanese Cypress) Lives Twice: the World of Tsunekazu Nishioka, a Temple Carpenter. InViews of the Environment in Asian Countries: Their Relationship to Sustainable Development (Asian-Pacific Center/The United Nations University). pp.9-18./English.

1997 Two Models of Caste Society and Renunciation: A Case of Senkunda Mudaliyar of South India. In K. Maekawa (ed.) Status and Profession. Kyoto: Minerva Shoten. /Japanese

1997 Eros and Anti-Eros: Measurement of Genitals, Female Masturbation and Orgasm in Japan. In T. Funabiki (ed.) A Micro-Perspective of a Society. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. /Japanese

1996 Sacred Water and Sacred Blood: River Worship in South Asia. In K. Fukui (ed.) Water and Human Environment. Tokyo: ToTo Shuppan. /Japanese

1995 Self Affirmation, Self Negation and the Denial of the Other in Popular Religion: Hindu Votive Rituals and Paintings. In M.Kusunoki (ed.) Popular Religions. Tokyo: Iwata Shoten. /Japanese

1995 Hindu Religious Nationalism. In S. Tanabe (ed.) Revival of Religions in Asia. Kyoto: Kyoto University Academic Press. /Japanese

1995 Gender Relationships in a Tamil Fishing Village of Sri Lanka. Y.Tsurumi and H.Nakamura (eds.) Marine Commons. Tokyo: Gakuyo Shobo. /Japanese

1994 Hindu Temple Policy in South India: A Case of the Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram. In J.Okada (ed.) Japanese Religions. Osaka: Toho Syuppan. /Japanese

1994 Ethnic Conflicts in Sri Lanka. In Y.Okamura and M.Kimura (eds.) Modern History of Conflict Zones (South Asia). Tokyo: Dobunkan. /Japanese

1993 Hindu Temple Policy in Colonial and Post colonial Lanka.In S. Tanabe (ed.) Anthropology of Buddhist Societies. Kyoto: Kyoto University Academic Press. /Japanese

1993 Family and Household in a Tamil Fishing Village of Sri Lanka. In K.Maekawa (ed.) Family and Household of a Pre-industrial Societies. Kyoto: Minerva Shoten. /Japanese

1993 Why are Brahman Temple Priests Highest in the Caste Hierarchy? Nagano Y. and Y. Ikari (eds.) From Vedic Altar to Village to Village Shrine. SES 36: 85-124. /English

1993 Fishing Rituals Reconsidered: A Case of A Tamil Fishing Village of Sri Lanka. The Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology. 18(1) 47-98. /Japanese

1993 Orientalism in Psychoanalysis of Indian Societies: Sexual Fantasies and their Interpretations. In K.Sudo and S.Sugishima (eds.) Ethnography of Sex. Jinbun Shoin. /Japanese

1993 Transformation of Ritual Violence: From Sacrifice to Ethnocide. Jokyo 4(1) 55-77. /Japanese

Year Image ARTICLES Order
Sacrifice Lost and Found: Colonial India and Postcolonial Lanka, was published in our journal Zinbun. This is based on the analysis of two government reports, on firewalking, hook-swinging (colonial India) and animal sacrifice (postcolonial Lanka) , but briefly refers to the contemporary resurgence of hook-swinging and firewalking in the West, and to "modern primitives". >> Get This Book

Views of the Environment in Asian Countries: Their Relationship to Sustainable Development (Asian-Pacific Center/The United Nations University). This collection of 17 essays is based on the international workshops held in Fukuoka and Kyoto in 1994 and 1995. I have written a short essay entitled Hinoki (Japanese Cypress) Lives Twice, on the animistic world of Tsunekazu Nishioka, a temple carpenter. Among the foreign contributers are David Y.H.Wu(HongKong), Veena Das(Delhi), J.B.Disanayaka(Colombo), Chung Ching-Hong(Seoul), Fernando Zialcita(Manila). >> Get This Book

I have written two essays: Introduction on the three Japanese views of India (caste and popular Hinduism) during WWII, and Navaratri Festival in Chidambaram, South India. >> Get This Book

Year	Image	ARTICLES	Order
		Sacrifice Lost and Found: Colonial India and Postcolonial Lanka, was published in our journal Zinbun. This is based on the analysis of two government reports, on firewalking, hook-swinging (colonial India) and animal sacrifice (postcolonial Lanka) , but briefly refers to the contemporary resurgence of hook-swinging and firewalking in the West, and to "modern primitives".	>> Get This Book
		Views of the Environment in Asian Countries: Their Relationship to Sustainable Development (Asian-Pacific Center/The United Nations University). This collection of 17 essays is based on the international workshops held in Fukuoka and Kyoto in 1994 and 1995. I have written a short essay entitled Hinoki (Japanese Cypress) Lives Twice, on the animistic world of Tsunekazu Nishioka, a temple carpenter. Among the foreign contributers are David Y.H.Wu(HongKong), Veena Das(Delhi), J.B.Disanayaka(Colombo), Chung Ching-Hong(Seoul), Fernando Zialcita(Manila).	>> Get This Book
		I have written two essays: Introduction on the three Japanese views of India (caste and popular Hinduism) during WWII, and Navaratri Festival in Chidambaram, South India.	>> Get This Book