Center for Northeast Asian Studies Tohoku University Northeast Asian Monograph Series

Stalin and Xinjiang: 1931-1949.
Kyosuke Terayama

Xinjiang (Eastern Turkistan) dominantly populated by Muslim Uighurs and other miscellaneous peoples, situated far from central China had traditionally strong economic relationship with neighboring central Asian countries, Russia and Soviet Union. After the Manchurian Incident(1931) and the formation of “Manchukuo” next year, the influence of the Soviet Union, which has begun to worry about the possibilities of Japanese invasion into this region, has increased intensively and dispatched Red Army several times into Xinjiang in order to support pro-soviet local government against mutinies. Based on the Russian firsthand materials newly founded in several archives, this study illuminates the process and characteristics of this soviet involvement in Xinjiang inner politics from the beginning of 1930’s until the establishment of People’s Republic of China.

Religion across borders: Rise of Evangelicals in the post-socialist Mongolia
Katsuhiko Takizawa

Evangelical Christianity has rapidly grown in Mongolia where the social situation has dramatically changed since the collapse of about 70 years of socialist system. In this book I carefully analyzed this complicated phenomenon of "religion across borders" which occurred in the entanglement of multi-layered dimensions, and tries to give a new paradigm to grasp "religion" in the growing liquidity of modern society.

Circulation of human waste manure in the early modern Japan : the farm villages and city of the Osaka area
Kenichiro Aratake

In the present age on which we live, excrement is unnecessary and is an object of processing. However, in the early modern Japan, it was high "treasure" of commodity value. In this book, I analyzed in detail about the dealings of human waste currently performed by Osaka in the 17th century to the 19th century. It is estimated that the Edo period is recycle-societies by the latest environmental theory, and treatment of human waste is also described as the example. Having been much more important is that human waste was goods worthy for people. I am pleased if looking gets this book as a social history of formation which people accumulated.

Anthropologist Doing Exhibition: Dialogue between Field and Home
TAKAKURA Hiroki ed.

Anthropology is a science of traveling. A researcher visits the field afar and then return home and narrates their experience. The traveling is never ending process. Anthropologist now returns to the field and explains their home to the people at field. This book is to uncover these processes and in which anthropologist organizes the exhibition for publishing their research result both at field and home. Exciting new type of outreach is shown from each author from field of Japan, Siberia, North America, and Southeast Asia.

Gift of /in the moose : Natural history of northern hunter Kaska and Animals
YAMAGUCHI Mikako

This book is based on anthropological paradigm known as Shizenshi, which is a systematic description of hunting system of Kaska North American indigenous people, as a theoretical framework to present and analyze the relationship between Kaska and animals as an activity system with ecological, cultural, social and religious aspects. Also focused on how human being adapted to the northern environment include the Northeast Asia, and how northern people development view of world known as “original oneness”. In addition, this book reported Kaska people is reproduced their society based on Traditional hunting also social and economic activity of modern society as a one of Canadian community.

Living with Invented Tradition: Local Identity of Contemporary Japanese Society
KIM Hyeon-Jeong

This book analyzes the historical constructive process of “Hitachi-no- kuni Sōsyagū Taisai,”(literally “the main festival of the Hitachi-no-kuni Sōsya shrine”) or generally known as “Ishioka-no-omatsuri” which has been performed in Ishioka, Ibaraki prefecture and recursive practice as concern with the past and the claim of tradition hidden in various social practice and recognition of local people involved in the shrine festival in the historical context of Ishioka as a peripheral society, and empirically argues the local identity in contemporary Japan. It is noteworthy that the author tries to cope with the problem of constructionism perspective, even though it has its own significance and effectiveness as the antithesis of the essentialism perspective toward so-called tradition, which is caused by the fact that the field-centered study need to interact closely with local people and offers a valuable historical description which the field-centered ethnographic research can overlook.

Religion in Contemporary China
KAWAGUCHI Yukihiro and SEGAWA Masahisa

Based on intensive field research, authors try to describe the latest status of religious beliefs and practices in China, including the established religions such as Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as the newly emerged religious movements and traditional folk religion. All of them have been under the strong control of communist government and at the same time now are under the encounter with a rapidly changing social condition of contemporary China. This is a very challenging study for its efforts to understand today’s Chinese ociety not only through its politico-economical phenomena but also from the depth of cultural and religious dimension.

Arctic pastoralist Sakha: Ethnography of evolution and micro-adaptation in Siberia
TAKAKURA Hiroki

This book expands the ethnographic description of the horse-cattle pastoralists Sakha in Eastern Siberia and its cultural ecology. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the global economy directly influenced Sakha society in various ways and for various reasons. An approach which integrates both the short-term perspective from my own field of ethnography and a long-term cultural historical perspective offers fresh insights into these effects.

An Anthropological Study on the Images of Ethnic Group in Contemporary China
Masahisa Segawa

By reviewing Xiaotong Fei's vision on Chinese Nationalities, we extracted several important features of his concept 'minzu'. Then, based on fieldworks among Yao and She in Guangdong, Lee in Hainan, Zheyuanren in Guangxi, Dai in Yunnan, Hakka in Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, and Guangxi, Hui in Nanjing, Dong and Miao in Guizhou, and Qiang in Sichuan, we made case studies on the historical process of minorities' articulation into the network of Han Chinese, the process of their integration into the modern nation state, and the changing pattern of inter-ethnic relation under the China's recent social condition, through which we have reached some understanding on the background, the academic value, and the limits of Fei's vision.