Tadao Umesao (梅棹 忠夫, Umesao Tadao, June 13, 1920 – July 3, 2010) was a
Japaneseanthropologist. A professor for decades at
Kyoto University, he was also among the founders and the director-general of
National Museum of Ethnology in
Osaka,
Japan. A number of Umesao's theories were influential on anthropologists, and his work was also well known among the general population of Japan.
Publications
Major Publications in Japanese
1956 Exploration to the Moghols in Afghanistan, Iwanami Shoten
1957 Ethnological Conception of the History of Civilizations, Chuo Koron-sha
1969 The Art of Intellectual Production, Iwanami Shoten
1974 The Japanese in the Global Age, Chuo Koron-sha
1976 The World of Hunting and Nomadism, Kodansha
1986 The Formation and Development of Modern Japanese Civilization, Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai
1987 The Museum as Media, Heibonsha
1988 Civilization Theory on Information, Chuo Koron-sha
1988 Women and Civilization, Chuo Koron-sha
1989 Research Management Theory, Iwanami Shoten
1989–94 Collected Works of Tadao Umesao, Chuo Koron-sha
1997 Action and Imagination: an autobiography, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha
2000 Japanese Civilization in the Modern World: Comparative Study of Civilizations, Chuo Koron Shinsha
Publications in other languages:
1983 Le Japon à l'ère Planétaire, Paris : Publications Orientalistes de France.
1984 Il Giappone Nell'era Planetaria, Milano: Spirali Edizioni.
1988 “Prolegomena zu einer historischen Betrachtung zivilisierter Lebensformen“ in Japan ohne Mythos, Munich: Iudicium.
1998 The Roots of Contemporary Japan (trilingual in English, Japanese and Chinese), Tokyo: The Japan Forum.
2002 Ecological and Anthropological Study of the Nomadic Culture of Mongolia, Hohhot: People's Press of Inner Mongolia.
2003 An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context, Edited by Harumi Befu, Translated by Beth Cary, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
An Ecological View of History was also translated into Chinese (Shanghai, 1988) and Vietnamese (Ha Noi, 2007)
Tadao Umesao (梅棹 忠夫, Umesao Tadao, June 13, 1920 – July 3, 2010) was a
Japaneseanthropologist. A professor for decades at
Kyoto University, he was also among the founders and the director-general of
National Museum of Ethnology in
Osaka,
Japan. A number of Umesao's theories were influential on anthropologists, and his work was also well known among the general population of Japan.
Publications
Major Publications in Japanese
1956 Exploration to the Moghols in Afghanistan, Iwanami Shoten
1957 Ethnological Conception of the History of Civilizations, Chuo Koron-sha
1969 The Art of Intellectual Production, Iwanami Shoten
1974 The Japanese in the Global Age, Chuo Koron-sha
1976 The World of Hunting and Nomadism, Kodansha
1986 The Formation and Development of Modern Japanese Civilization, Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai
1987 The Museum as Media, Heibonsha
1988 Civilization Theory on Information, Chuo Koron-sha
1988 Women and Civilization, Chuo Koron-sha
1989 Research Management Theory, Iwanami Shoten
1989–94 Collected Works of Tadao Umesao, Chuo Koron-sha
1997 Action and Imagination: an autobiography, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha
2000 Japanese Civilization in the Modern World: Comparative Study of Civilizations, Chuo Koron Shinsha
Publications in other languages:
1983 Le Japon à l'ère Planétaire, Paris : Publications Orientalistes de France.
1984 Il Giappone Nell'era Planetaria, Milano: Spirali Edizioni.
1988 “Prolegomena zu einer historischen Betrachtung zivilisierter Lebensformen“ in Japan ohne Mythos, Munich: Iudicium.
1998 The Roots of Contemporary Japan (trilingual in English, Japanese and Chinese), Tokyo: The Japan Forum.
2002 Ecological and Anthropological Study of the Nomadic Culture of Mongolia, Hohhot: People's Press of Inner Mongolia.
2003 An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context, Edited by Harumi Befu, Translated by Beth Cary, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.
An Ecological View of History was also translated into Chinese (Shanghai, 1988) and Vietnamese (Ha Noi, 2007)