Background
Nakane, Chie was born on November 30, 1926 in Tokyo. Son of Minoru Nakane and Chiyo Kawai.
(A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and a...)
A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and analyses of small societies through the structural approach of British anthropology. One is of course reminded of Ruth Benedict's Chrysanthemum and the Sword which deals also with Japanese national culture. Studies by Margaret Mead and Geoffrey Gorer deal with other national cultures; however, all of these studies take off from national psychology. Professor Nakane comes to explanation of the behavior of Japanese through analysis rather of historical social structure of Japanese society, beginning with the way any two Japanese perceive each other, and following through to the nature of the Japanese corporation and the whole society. Nakane's remarkable achievement, which has already given new insight about themselves to the Japanese, promises to open up a new field of large-society comparative social anthropology which is long overdue.--Sol Tax
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Nakane, Chie was born on November 30, 1926 in Tokyo. Son of Minoru Nakane and Chiyo Kawai.
Master of Arts, University Tokyo, 1952. Postgraduate, London School of Economics, 1956. Postgraduate, London School of Economics, 1960—1961.
Postgraduate, Istituto Italiano per il medio e estremo Oriente, 1957. Postgraduate, Istituto Italiano per il medio e estremo Oriente, 1964.
Nakane’s work focuses on cross-cultural comparisons of social structures in Asia, notably Japan, India, and China. She is internationally known for her bestselling book, Japanese Society, which has been translated into 13 languages. In this book, Nakane characterizes Japan as “a vertical society” where human relations are based on “place” (shared space) instead of “attribute” (qualification).
In 1959-1960, she was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
In 1960-1961, she was Lecturer at the University of London. In 1970, Nakane became the first female professor at the University of Tokyo, where she served as Director of the Institute of Oriental Culture in 1980-1982.
She was Professor at Osaka University and the National Museum of Ethnology and Visiting Professor at Cornell University in 1975-1980.
(A brilliant wedding of 'national character' studies and a...)
Member of American Philosophical Society, Japan Academy, Royal Anthropol. Institute of Great Britain (honorary), International Union of Anthropol. and Ethnological Sciences (life Gold medal 1988).