Harumi befu biography of martin
Contributor: Harumi Befu (Edited by), Beth Cary (Translated by)....
Harumi Befu and Kazufumi Manabe, “An Empircal Study of Nihonjinron: How Real is the Myth?" Kwansei Gakuin University Annual Studies, (), pp
Prize Announcements
The executive committee of AJJ (Anthropology of Japan in Japan) is pleased to announce the results of the inaugural Harumi Befu and Mark Bookman Prizes, awarded at the 2023 Annual Conference held at the Shirokane Campus of Meiji Gakuin University.
THE HARUMI BEFU PRIZE
Harumi Befu, emeritus professor of Stanford University and the founder of AJJ, passed away on 4 August 2022 at the age of 92.
Thanks to a very generous donation from his widow, Kei, the prize has been funded for ten years. It is worth 250,000 yen annually, and is awarded for the best presentation by an emerging scholar (defined as any researcher who does not yet have a tenured position) at the annual AJJ conference.
The judging panel, consisting of 16 members of the AJJ Executive Committee and 10 invited senior scholars, decided unanimously to award the inaugural Harumi Befu Prize to Anna Wozny, post-doctoral fellow at Tokyo College in the University of Tokyo, for her presentation&nb