@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003979,
 author = {桑山, 敬己 and Kuwayama, Takami},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Sep},
 note = {This article presents my observations of American anthropology, based
on my 11 years of stay in the United States as a foreign student and later as a
professor. It provides descriptive accounts of the ways anthropology is actually
practiced in America. As such, it may be considered an attempt at an
‘ethnography of anthropology.’
The opening chapter explains my background, both academic and personal,
and the reasons why I returned to Japan even after becoming a permanent
resident of the United States. The second chapter emphasizes the importance
of putting America in a relative perspective, thereby regarding it as representing
only one tradition out of many possibilities, despite the country’s
superpower status. This viewpoint is applied in the third chapter, which analyzes
the development of American anthropology by comparing it with that
of Great Britain. The fourth chapter presents my impressions of some of the
most influential American anthropologists by way of anecdotes. These illustrate
the personal, rather than academic, aspects of American scholarship.
The fifth chapter explores social factors in the academic culture of the United
States, particularly the oscillation between obedience to authority and defiance
thereof. The sixth chapter compares Japanese and American traditions of
scholarship, and points out that Japan’s strength lies in its versatility, which
compensates for its lack of depth. In the seventh chapter are discussed some
of the problems with which non-Western students are faced when studying
their own culture with American or British professors. The last chapter defines
Japan as peripheral to the ‘academic world system.’ I conclude with a plea
to the next generation of Japanese anthropologists that they should improve
Japan’s international standing by conducting world-class research.},
 pages = {27--56},
 title = {アメリカの人類学から学ぶもの},
 volume = {31},
 year = {2006},
 yomi = {クワヤマ, タカミ}
}