Editing Chie Nakane

{{Short description|Japanese anthropologist (1926–2021)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Chie Nakane
| image = Chie Nakane cropped Chie Nakane 19951212.jpg
| caption = Chie Nakane
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|11|30}}
| birth_place = [[Tokyo]], [[Japanese Empire|Japan]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|10|12|1926|11|30}}
| death_place = Tokyo, Japan
| occupation = author and anthropologist, Professor Emerita at [[Tokyo University]]
| nationality = Japanese
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| genre = Social anthropology
| subject = Societies of India, Tibet, Okinawa and Japan, Human relations in a vertical society
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| awards = [[Order of Culture]], 2001<br /> [[Medals of Honor (Japan)]] Purple ribbon, 1990
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{{Nihongo|'''Chie Nakane'''|中根 千枝|Nakane Chie|November 30, 1926 &ndash; October 12, 2021}}{{cn|date=March 2024}} was a Japanese anthropologist and Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at the [[University of Tokyo]].<ref>The Japan Foundation, Awards and Special Prizes, Recipients List, 1973–1995 (https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/about/award/archive/archive1973-1995.html).</ref>

==Education and career==
Nakane was born in Tokyo and spent her teenage years in Beijing.<ref>Joy Hendry, "An Interview with Chie Nakane," ''Current Anthropology'', Vol. 30, No. 5, December 1989, p. 643.</ref> She graduated from [[Tsuda College]] in 1947 and then completed her graduate work specializing in [[China]] and [[Tibet]] at the University of Tokyo in 1952. In 1953–1957, she did fieldwork in India and studied in the [[London School of Economics]]. Nakane served as visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at the [[University of Chicago]] at the invitation of [[Sol Tax]] from 1959 to 1960 and as Visiting Lecturer in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the [[University of London]] at the invitation of [[Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf]] in 1960–1961.<ref>Joy Hendry, "An Interview with Chie Nakane," ''Current Anthropology'', Vol. 30, No. 5, December 1989, p. 644.</ref>

In 1970, Nakane became the first female professor at the University of Tokyo, where she served as Director of the Institute of Oriental Culture from 1980 to 1982. She was also Professor at [[Osaka University]] and the [[National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)|National Museum of Ethnology]] and visiting professor at [[Cornell University]] from 1975 to 1980. Nakane retired from the University of Tokyo in 1987.<ref>Joy Hendry, "An Interview with Chie Nakane," ''Current Anthropology'', Vol. 30, No. 5, December 1989, p. 648.</ref> In 1995, she became the first and only female member of the [[Japan Academy]]. She was also an honorary member of the [[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]].

==Japan as Vertical Society==
Nakane's work focuses on cross-cultural comparisons of social structures in Asia, notably Japan, India, and China. She is internationally known for her bestselling book, [[Japanese Society (1970 book)|''Japanese Society'']], which has been translated into 13 languages. In this book, Nakane characterizes Japan as "a vertical society" where human relations are based on "place" (shared space) instead of "attribute" (qualification).

==Publications==
===Books===
*Nakane, C. (1967). ''Kinship and economic organization in rural Japan.'' [[London]]: [[Athlone Press]].
*Nakane, C. (1970). ''Japanese society.'' [[Berkeley, CA]]: [[University of California Press]]. 
*Nakane, C. (1972). ''Human relations in Japan: Summary translation of “Tateshakai no Ningen Kankei.”'' [[Tokyo]]: [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]], Japan.
*Nakane, C., & Chiao, C. (Eds.). (1992). ''Home bound: Studies in East Asian society—Papers presented at the symposium in honor of the 80th birthday of Professor Fei Xiaotong.'' Tokyo: Center for East Asian Cultural Studies and Toyo Bunko.
*Nakane, C., & Oishi, S. (Eds.). (1990). ''Tokugawa Japan: The social and economic antecedents of modern Japan.'' Tokyo: [[University of Tokyo Press]].

===Articles===
*Nakane, C. (1964). Logic and the smile: When Japanese meet Indians. ''Japan Quarterly'', ''11''(4), 434–438.
*Nakane, C. (1965). Towards a theory of Japanese social structure: A unilateral society. ''The Economic Weekly'', ''17''(5–7), 197–216.
*Nakane, C. (1972). Social background of Japanese in Southeast Asia. ''The Developing Economics'', ''10''(2), 115–125.
*Nakane, C. (1974). Cultural anthropology in Japan. ''[[Annual Review of Anthropology]]'', ''3'', 57–72.
*Nakane, C. (1975). A cross-cultural look at organizational behavior with particular attention to the difference between Japan and the United States. ''Linguistic Communications'', ''15'', 95–106.
*Nakane, C. (1975). Fieldwork in India: A Japanese experience. In A. Beteille & T. N. Madan (Eds.), ''Encounter and experience: Personal accounts of fieldwork'' (pp.&nbsp;13–26). [[Honolulu, HI]]: [[University of Hawaii Press]].
*Nakane, C. (1982). The effect of cultural tradition on anthropologists. In H. M. Fahim (Ed.), ''Indigenous anthropology in non-Western countries: Proceedings of a Burg Wartenstein symposium'' (pp.&nbsp;52–60). [[Durham, NC]]: [[Carolina Academic Press]].

==Honors==
*Elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]], 1977.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chie+Nakane&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
*[[Medals of Honor (Japan)]] Purple ribbon, 1990.
*[[Order of Culture]], 2001.<ref>[http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/publish/periodic/jfn/pdf/jfn29_2.pdf  "Cultural Highlights; From the Japanese Press (August 1–October 31, 2001),"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927142615/http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/publish/periodic/jfn/pdf/jfn29_2.pdf |date=September 27, 2011 }}  ''Japan Foundation Newsletter,'' Vol. XXIX, No. 2, p. 7. ISSN 0385-2318</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160122010450/http://www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/fu-a/en/culture_prizes/detail/14.html NAKANE Chie (The Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize)]
* [http://www.rolexawards.com/profiles/jury/chie_nakane Chie Nakane (The Rolex Awards for Enterprise)]

==External links==
* [https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1126836 Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 19th October 2009 (video)]

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