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Ogata-Mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village
Donald C. Wood
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Description for Ogata-Mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village
Paperback. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura's development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan. Series: Asian Anthropologies. Num Pages: 262 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFSF; JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian ... Read more
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan's rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village's purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Asian Anthropologies
Condition
New
Weight
354g
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785330445
SKU
V9781785330445
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99-15
About Donald C. Wood
Donald C. Wood is an Associate Professor at Akita University, where he has worked since earning a PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Tokyo in 2004. He is currently editor of the Research in Economic Anthropology book series.
Reviews for Ogata-Mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village
In his densely detailed, long-term study of Ogata-mura, Wood has taken us a lifetime away from the first studies of Japanese villages carried out by foreigners in the 1930s and 1950s... Wood presents an excellent analysis of the conflict between the view held by some residents that farming is a way of life and the conviction by others that it ... Read more