Table of Contents:
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Wartime anthropology : a global perspective / Jan van Bremen
  • Anthropology and the wartime situation of the 1930s and 1940s : Masao Oka, Yoshitaro Hirano, Eiichiro Ishida and their negotiations with the situation / Akitoshi Shimizu
  • Nakano Seiichi and colonial ethnic studies / Kevin M. Doak
  • Selves and others in Japanese anthropology / Teruo Sekimoto
  • Physical anthropology in wartime Japan / Atsushi Nobayashi
  • Anthropological studies of the indigenous peoples in Sakhalin in pre-wartime and wartime Japan / Shiro Sasaki
  • War and ethnology/folklore in colonial Korea : the case of Akiba Takashi / Ch'oe Kilsung
  • For science, co-prosperity, and love : the re-imagination of Taiwanese folklore and Japan's greater East Asian war / Tsu Yun Hui
  • Studies of Chinese peasant society in Japan : before and during World War II / Nie Lili
  • Colonial anthropology in the Netherlands and wartime anthropology in Japan / Miyazaki Koji
  • Mabuchi Toichi in Makassar / Nakao Katsumi
  • Resuscitating nationalism : Brunei under the Japanese military administration (1941-1945) / B.A. Hussainmiya.