Ishida Eiichirō

Ishida Eiichirō ( Japanese 石田 英 一郎 ; born June 30, 1903 in Osaka ; died November 9, 1968 ) was a Japanese anthropologist of the Shōwa period .

life and work

Ishida Eiichirō attended Kyōto University , but had to leave it because of left-wing political activities. He then went to Vienna and studied anthropology there under Wilhelm Schmidt and Wilhelm Koppers . In 1951 he was appointed to the newly created chair of cultural anthropology at the University of Tokyo .

Ishida examined what is considered to be specifically Japanese of Japanese culture from the perspective of a larger East Asian context using a comparative folklore method known as "cultural circles". His comparative study "Kappa komabiki-kō" (河 童 駒 引 考) on Kappa , the mythological creature that appears in the Japanese legend, which appeared in 1948, is a major research contribution in those years.

Ishida later developed a theory of cultural interrelationships based on Marx 's materialistic view and an anthropological concept of culture as advocated by the new evolutionary school. In 1967 he received the Mainichi Culture Prize .

Ishida's writings are summarized in a complete edition (石田 英 一郎 全集), which appeared in eight volumes from 1970 to 1972.

Remarks

1. ↑ In 1961, Ishida was awarded a PhD with a thesis on this subject at the University of Tokyo. phil. PhD.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Ishida Eiichirō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 628.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Ishida is the family name, Eiichirō the first name.