Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney | |
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University of Wisconsin |
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (
Education
A native of Japan, born in Kobe 1934. Ohnuki-Tierney received a B.A. degree from
Scholarship
Ohnuki- Tierney's first work is a
Ohnuki-Tierney has been working on the question of power of symbols and its absence in political spaces since the mid-1980s. Her most recent works began as a study of symbolism of cherry blossoms and their viewing in relation to Japanese identities and led to an exploration of the
She has continued to work on the question of "aesthetic" (broadly defined), ubiquitous in wars of all types, from "tribal warfare" to conflicts between nation-states. This is done against the basic theoretical question of communicative opacity—how people fail to recognize the absence of communication.
Ohnuki-Tierney's most recent book is titled Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces (2015).[11]
References
- ^ Campus honors eight faculty with named professorships
- ^ 1964. The Detroit Chinese: A Study of Socio-Cultural Changes in the Detroit Chinese Community from 1872 through 1963. Hard-cover book of a type-written ms. 119 pp. Housed at Detroit Public Library, UCLA Library, etc.
- ^ 1969. Sakhalin Ainu Folklore. Anthropological Studies No. 2. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
- ^ 1974. The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Reprinted in 1984 by: Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press.
- ^ 1981. Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ 1984. Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ 1987.The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual. Princeton University Press.
- ^ 1993. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time. Princeton University Press.
- ^ 2002. Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History. University of Chicago Press. One of five finalists for the non-fiction category of the Kiriyama Prize.(Also in Italian translation)
- ^ 2006. Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers. University of Chicago (Also in Russian and Polish translation) ISBN
- ISBN 9780804794107.
External links
- The Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin
- Select articles available for download
- Excerpt from Kamikaze Diaries
- Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 30 April 2011 (video)
See also
- Japanese culture