TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Donald C.
TI  - Ogata-Mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village 
T2  - Asian Anthropologies
SN  - 9780857455246
AV  - GN635.J2 W66 2015
U1  - 307.720952113 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Japan
KW  - Ōgata-mura (Akita-ken)
KW  - Community life
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Village communities
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Environmental Studies (General), Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Village and the Issues --; 1 Agricultural Policy and Regional Politics in Japan --; 2 Reclamation and the Old Social Order --; 3 The Storm and the Aftermath --; 4 Rice: Alliances, Institutions, Frictions --; 5 Politics and the New Social Order --; 6 What Can We Learn from Ogata-mura? --; Afterword --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan’s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village’s purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the settlers became divided into political factions that to this day continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura’s development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village’s economic transformations while addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and regional levels
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857455260
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857455260
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857455260/original
ER  -