Akiba Takashi

Akiba Takashi ( Japanese 秋葉 隆 ; * October 5, 1888 Chiba Prefecture ; † October 16, 1954 ) was a Japanese sociologist.

Akiba was until the end of the Second World War sociology professor at the University of Keijo ( Seoul ) and from 1948 to 1954 at the Aichi University . He made a significant contribution to the sociology of religion with his individual case studies of the folk culture of Korea , Manchuria and Mongolia , in which he turned his attention to sorcery and shamanism .

Fonts (selection)

• The Ethnography of Manchuria , 1938.
• Race and Religion of Manchuria and Mongolia , 1940.
• The history of the ethnography of Korea , 1950.

literature

• K. Odaka: Akiba, Takashi , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 1, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1980, p. 6.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} German translation of the Japanese title

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Akiba is the family name, Takashi the first name.