furusato

healthy-body beauty

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

Japanologist

university professor

University of Michigan

innovator in the field of

medical anthropology

actor

Canadian

anthropologist of Japan

anthropology of Japan

anthropology

is, as a locus of cultural value, reliant upon, on the one hand, removal in time (represented by pastness, historicity, quaintness, and the patina of familiarity) and on the other, removal in distance (a fundamental alienation, a severance from home).

The idea of furusato as a locus of cultural value is reliant upon two degrees of removal. The first is time... the idea of furusato relies on the passage of time and the fading of memory. Robertson claims, 'The temporal dimension of furusato, represented by the word furusato(i), signifies pastness, historicity, age, quaintness, and the patina of familiarity and naturalness that cultural artifacts and human relationships acquire with age, use and interaction.' The second degree of removal is distance... without distance the negative aspects of the place cannot fade into memory. Ivy claims that, 'Concern with the furusato indicates a fundamental alienation, a severance from 'home.'' For the Japanese this can be their hometown if they are located in the urban areas, or it can be the nation of Japan if they are living abroad. What is important, in essence, is that the idea of furusato is one that the Japanese carry in their minds.

is connotative of a desirable lifestyle aesthetic summed up by artlessness and rustic simplicity with its quintessential landscape features including forested mountains, fields cut by a meandering river, and a cluster of thatched roof farmhouses.

In this connection, furusato connotes a desirable lifestyle aesthetic summed up by the term soboku, or artlessness and rustic simplicity, and its quintessential landscape features include forested mountains, fields cut by a meandering river, and a cluster of thatched roof farmhouses.

is full of interpolative power and efficacy which resides in the image of 'traditional culture'.

The interpolative power and efficacy of furusato resides in the image of 'traditional culture' conjured up by the word and in its perception as something broadly 'Japanese.'

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