My first article, which critiques the adapatation-resilience development paradigm by tracing its genealogy to prewar Japanese labor science and its influence on everything from austerity policies to anti-air conditioning, is now OA on cssh.

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

coming soon

remains of the houses of cave-dwelling people in Shiroyama, Shizuoka (1914)

Godelier writes that the abandonment of hypothesis on the "multiplicity of forms of transition" transformed Marxist hypothesis into a "fixed formula"

the dobb-sweezy debate mirrored the existing two "opposing camps in" Japanese history
otsuka-school = dobb, unoists (by extension ronoha) = sweezy

whatever one might think of the 'asiatic mode of production,' perry anderson's criticism of it is quite underwhelming

I didn't know that! but it makes a lot of sense.

to your last point: I always think this footnote by Otsuka Hisao best gets at how his work is viewed on the Japanese side

be careful what you say about rice

if you'll be attending #AASSeattle please come to our panel "The Commodification of Island and Coastal Environments in Japan, Okinawa, and Cheju Island Korea" with @dfeds.bsky.social as discussant on Sunday at 10:45.
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the Meguro-ku goat and rooster