European Journal of Japanese Philosophy 1 (2016) TOC and Intro
The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in the fall. Its aim is to provide a forum for critical articles and translations related to Japanese philosophy. Contributions are welcome in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Japanese. Publisher: Chisokudo Shuppan ISSN: 2367-3095
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Unnatural classes in morphological change
In this note I question a long-standing truism of Russian historical morphology, attempting to account for its persistence. The facts are these: the default endings of the genitive plural of 1st declension masculine nouns, -ов and -ей, come originally from the u-stems and i-stems, ...
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Salvage and Salvation: Guest Editors' Introduction. Asian Ethnology Vol. 75 (2016), 1-28.
What does it mean to offer salvation in the midst of disaster? This is the question that animates the articles in this special issue, all of which probe the complex dynamics at play in the intersections of religion and disaster relief in contemporary Asia. Here, we seek to advance inquiry into the conceptual categories of " religion, " " disaster, " " relief, " and " Asia " by drawing on recent theoretical advances across a variety of disciplines.
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7 NAGAI KAFŪ'S FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
This paper examines four of Nagai Kafu's works, each featuring a strong female character, to analyze how the author's perspective on women in society developed over time. The first two stories examined are 'The Inebriated Beauty' and 'The Snake Charmer', from his time abroad in America and France. In these stories, gender is mediated by race, but the male narrator is exposed as being deeply embedded in the Meiji discourse on women. The next two stories examined are 'May Darkness' (from 'Night Tales of Shinbashi') and 'During the Rains', both of which are set in Japan. Here, the women are...
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A case for greater interdisciplinary collaboration in language and music revitalization
Efforts to revitalize languages are situated within the wider context of efforts to maintain and revitalize intangible expressions of culture more broadly, from music to dance to ritual and ceremonial traditions. In some ways, language revitalization efforts are considerably further advanced in both theory and practice than those relating to other cultural expressions. Taking music as a example, this chapter draws together the scholarly field of language revitalization with the growing investigations into music sustainability, making the case for close collaboration between sociolinguists...
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