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| Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Abbreviation | JASN |
| Publisher | Anthropological Society of Nippon |
| Country | Japan |
| History | 1880s–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Issn | 0000-0000 |
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon is a scholarly periodical originating in Meiji-era Tokyo that has published research on physical anthropology, ethnography, and comparative studies relating to Japan, East Asia, and broader regions. The journal has intersected with work by figures associated with institutions such as University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, and has been cited in scholarship connected to British Museum, Smithsonian Institution, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and Max Planck Society. Over its lifespan the publication engaged debates linked to expeditions to Hokkaido, Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, Sakhalin, and collections from Southeast Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia.
Founded in the late 19th century amid modernization efforts associated with the Meiji Restoration and intellectual currents around Tokyo Imperial University, the journal emerged alongside societies like the Anthropological Society of Tokyo and museums including the National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan). Early contributors included researchers trained under influences from Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Edward Burnett Tylor, and corresponded with scholars at British Museum, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, and Smithsonian Institution. Through the Taishō and Shōwa periods the journal reflected intersections with work by professors from Kyoto University, field campaigns to Ainu communities in Hokkaido, and exchanges with colonial-era institutions in Taiwan and Korea under Empire of Japan. During postwar reconstruction researchers affiliated with University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and Hitotsubashi University reoriented the journal toward comparative morphology, archaeology, and ethnology in dialogue with specialists at Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of California, Berkeley, and National Museum of Anthropology (Madrid).
The journal publishes original articles, field reports, and review essays on topics ranging from craniometry and osteology to linguistic typology and material culture, often in comparative conversation with work by authors from University of Oxford, SOAS University of London, Columbia University, and Australian National University. Typical content includes analyses of skeletal collections formerly catalogued at the Tokyo National Museum, prehistoric site reports comparable to finds at Jōmon period trenches, and ethnographic studies of groups such as the Ainu people, Ryukyuan people, Okinawan communities, and diasporas linked to Manchuria and Southeast Asia. Special issues have juxtaposed regional studies involving Siberia, the Bering Strait, Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea with theoretical interventions referencing work by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, Marshall Sahlins, and Claude Lévi-Strauss's contemporaries.
The journal is overseen by an editorial board drawn from scholars at University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Hokkaido University, Tohoku University, Osaka University, Nagoya University, and international affiliates from University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Chicago, Australian National University, National University of Singapore, and Peking University. The publisher, the Anthropological Society of Nippon, maintains relationships with cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), the Tokyo National Museum, and regional museums in Sapporo, Naha, and Sendai.
Articles from the journal have been indexed in databases and bibliographies alongside material from Scopus, Web of Science, and subject indexes used by libraries at Library of Congress, National Diet Library, and university holdings in University of Tokyo Library, Bodleian Library, Harvard-Yenching Library, and Bibliothèque nationale de France. The journal's abstracts have appeared in periodical roundups circulated through networks connected to International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, International Council of Museums, and regional associations in East Asian Studies centers.
Noteworthy contributions include morphological studies that engaged debates initiated by Franz Boas and Carleton S. Coon, skeletal analyses compared against assemblages at the Natural History Museum, London, archaeological syntheses referencing Jōmon period sequences and contested chronologies of the Yayoi period, and ethnographic monographs on Ainu people cultural practices documented alongside material housed at the British Museum and National Museum of Ethnology (Japan). Field reports from expeditions to Sakhalin and Kuril Islands informed discussions in comparative population history with research centers such as Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution Department of Anthropology, and laboratories at University of California, Berkeley.
The journal has been both lauded and critiqued: praised by scholars at University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Harvard University, and Australian National University for detailed collections-based research, and scrutinized in postwar debates involving UNESCO and critics at Tokyo Imperial University-successor institutions for earlier colonial-era interpretations. Its longitudinal record contributes to historiographies discussed in monographs by publishers associated with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and scholarly analyses from editorial projects at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Johns Hopkins University Press.
The journal issues quarterly volumes with print editions held in repositories including the National Diet Library, British Library, Library of Congress, and university libraries at University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Harvard University, and University of Cambridge. Digitization projects have made selections available through partnerships with institutions such as National Institute of Informatics (Japan), Internet Archive-aligned collections curated by HathiTrust, and campus consortia at University of California libraries. Subscription and back-issue access are managed by the Anthropological Society of Nippon and affiliated university presses including collaborations with University of Tokyo Press and regional academic publishers in Osaka and Kyoto.
Category:Anthropology journals