Imanishi Kinji Archive

Imanishi Kinji (1902-1992) was an entomologist, ecologist, anthropologist , founder of Japanese primatology and an accomplished mountaineer. His seminal ideas are contained in his book Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), published in 1941. Both an English and a German translation have been published. In 2001 a large collection of Imanishi's field notes, lecture notes, drafts of papers, letters to foreign scientists, photographs, and maps,dating from 1925-1980 was discovered in Kyoto. Current work involves cataloguing the material (which is in English, German and Japanese) and examining foreign and native influences on the development of Imanishi's thought in the various fields to which he contributed.

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Marginalisation in Academic Scholarship

The existence, as well as the perception, of marginalisation in world scholarship is multi-faceted. It is not based on geography or nationalisms that one might expect, and it differs across disciplines and periods of a discipline's history. A multi-national effort is expanding on previous investigations (Asquith, 2000) into the claim of marginalisation of some science and social science research in East Asia.