JAPX107 Modern Japan identity

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Bc. Mgr. Jakub Havlíček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:35 zruseno D22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 105 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/105, only registered: 0/105, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/105
Course objectives
The course aims to introduce the problematic of constructing and re-producing social and national identity in Japan. It is focused on the mechanism of creating national identity of modern Japan. The classes provide the survey of sociological and anthropological theories dealing with Japanese society and culture.
Syllabus
  • 1) Nation, nationalism, ethnicity, identity – concepts in social sciences
  • 2) Constructing and „de-constructing“ Japanese national identity
  • 3) Nihonjinron. Theories on Japanese culture and society
  • 4) Japanese national identity and educational system
  • 5) Social identities - gender, family and work práce, male and female roles
  • 6) Local identity and tradition
  • 7) Religion and nationalism
  • 8) Minorities, natives and newcomers, foreigners in Japan, multiculturalism
Literature
  • A companion to the anthropology of Japan. Edited by Jennifer Robertson. 1st pub. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2005, xxiii, 518. ISBN 9780631229551. info
  • Befu, Harumi (2001), Hegemony of Homogeneity. An Anthropological Analysis of Nihonjinron, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
  • Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (1998), Re-Inventing Japan. Time, Space, Nation, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.
  • Yoshino, Kosaku (1992), Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, A Sociological Enquiry, London, New York: Routledge.
Assessment methods
Final test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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