Ideology and Historiography : The Case of Sugawara no Michizane in the \u27\u27Nihongiryaku, Fusō Ryakki\u27\u27 and the \u27\u27Gukanshō\u27\u27

Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms, カリフォルニア大学 サンタ・バーバラ校, カリフォルニア大学 ロサンゼルス校, 2001年1

Naming a New Self: Identity Elasticity and Self-Definition in Voluntary Name Changes

This article considers how personal name changes are situated within their sociological context in the United States. Reviewing both popular and scholarly texts on names and name changes, I draw on recent work on identity and narrative by Oriana to argue that voluntary personal name changes are made in relation to a sense of narrative elasticity oridentity elasticity, and act symbolically to make a shifting identity or self-narrative manifest in the social context. Drawing out these themes through an exploration of name changes for ethnic self-definition or religious purposes, I conclude with a reflection on the unstable social balance between an individual’s interest in self-expression and society’s priority on the stable identification of persons within a given social sphere

Conférence de M. Herbert Plutschow

Plutschow Herbert. Conférence de M. Herbert Plutschow. In: École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire. Tome 106, 1997-1998. 1997. pp. 135-138

Conférence de M. Herbert Plutschow

Plutschow Herbert. Conférence de M. Herbert Plutschow. In: École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences religieuses. Annuaire. Tome 106, 1997-1998. 1997. pp. 135-138

Historical Kyoto: with Illustrations and guide maps

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Gift-exchange as a means of 'handling diversity': Japanese-European interactions in the seventeenth century

Historical intercultural interactions between Europeans and Japanese during the seventeenth century were characterised by a diversity of perceptions and attitudes within a dynamic yet stable continuum of relationships, in which people reached a certain degree of understanding in a daily context. This relational stability was fundamentally created through evolving cycles of gift-behaviour, which occurred on distinct social levels. Surpassing mere tribute, this proved to be a constitutive element of daily social life. Research based on early seventeenth century European travellers’ accounts, letters and journals, compared with a famous case from the end of that century, emphasises that this behaviour changed in some ways and persisted in others. Originally developing in a considerably spontaneous and dynamic manner, this tendency became more institutionalised and ritualised in later times, when a fixed protocol for dealing with diversity was established. This phenomenon can be analysed through anthropological theory, and should be compared to different historical contexts in a diachronic sense, in order to fully understand both the theoretical implications and particularities of this context. This includes a methodologically critical perspective as well as a reflection on how historians handle diversity