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Dr. Nakane Chie is a leading Japanese social anthropologist. While living in China as a child, she became interested in other countries. After reading the works of Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, she decided to major in anthropology.
After graduating from Tsuda College, she proceeded to the University of Tokyo where she studied Oriental History, specializing in China and Tibet. In 1952, she graduated from the postgraduate school of the University of Tokyo, and joined the University's Institute of Oriental Culture as an assistant.
After spending the period of 1953-57 in Assam, India, she went to Europe with a lot of research data. There, she furthered her studies in social anthropology in London's School of Economics, and her Tibetan studies in Rome under Professor Tucci, an acknowledged authority on Tibetan studies.
Her early work, "Mikai no Kao, Bunmei no Kao" (The Uncivilized, The Civilized), published in 1959, enhanced the Japanese's interest
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JAPANESE SOCIETY - Chie Nakane
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Chie Nakane is a renowned anthropologist of Japanese ursprung. She was born on November 30, 1926, in Tokyo. However, most of her teenage years were spent in Beijing where she attended her basic education and later graduated in 1947 from the Tsuda College. In 1952, she accomplished her graduate work at the University of Tokyo as a student of Oriental History where she specialized in Tibet and China (Hendry, 1989). Between 1953 and 1957, Nakane was a student at the London School of Economics furthering her social anthropology studies and was able to conduct fieldwork in India. Between 1959 and 1960, Nakane honored stjärna Tax’s invitation at the University of Chicago where she served in the Anthropology Department as a visiting professor (Hendry, 1989). Afterwards, and with Christoph Von’s invitation, she joined the University of London in the School of African and Oriental Studies as a visiting professor between 1960 and