Archaeological History of Japan, 30,000 B.C. to a.D. 700

Koji Mizoguchi is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan. He has also taught Japanese Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London since 2000.

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Self-Identification, Paradox, and the Japanese1. What Does It Mean To Be What We Are?—The "Japanese" in 30,000 B.P.—Body, Mind, and Identity—Spatio-Temporal Organization of Everyday Life2. Archaeology and Self-Identification: The Structures of a Contemporary Japanese Topography of Identities—Identity, Self-Identification, and the Past—Three Period-Specific Archaeologies—Beyond the Topography of Relativistic Cynicism—Expectation, Self-Identification, and Material Culture3. The Topography of Traveling and Encounters: The Paleolithic and the Initial Jomon Periods—Climatic Conditions and the Changing Shape of the Land—Spatio-Temporal Organization in the Late Paleolithic—Emerging Fixity—The Traveling Self and the Omnipresence of the Other4. The Topography of Scheduling: The Spatio-Temporal Organization of Social Life and the Jomon-Self—Mapping the Trajectories of Change—The Earlier Jomon—The Later Jomon—Scheduling and Egalitarianism in a Complex Topography of Identities5. The Topography of Division: Paddies, the Other and the Yayoi-Self—The Beginning—The Early to Early Middle Yayoi—The Process Toward the Late Middle Yayoi Climax—The Late Yayoi—Emergent Division in the Topography of Identities6. The Topography of Exclusion Through Inclusion: The Kofun-Self—The Internalization and Glorification of the Other—The Emergent Topography of Despotism—The Anxiety and Solitude of Being-in-the-World7. The Changing Topography of Identities: A Long-Term View—The Late Paleolithic/Incipient Jomon—The Jomon—The Yayoi—The Kofun8. Conclusion: The Changing Topography of Identities, the Other, and the Nonexistence of the Essence of IdentityReferencesIndexAcknowledgments

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