UMESAO Tadao was a pioneer in the fields of cultural anthropology and civilization studies in Japan. He obtained a PhD in Science from Kyoto University in 1961, and held many positions over his career, including Director General at the National Museum of Ethnology, Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies and Professor at Kyoto University. He passed away in July 2010.
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An Ecological View of HistoryUMESAO Tadao, BEFU Harumi
This is the first English version of Tadao U...
This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his ecological theory of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the Euras...
