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  1. Footbinding, Industrialization, and Evolutionary Explanation.Melissa J. Brown - 2016 - Human Nature 27 (4):501-532.
    The incorporation of niche construction theory (NCT) and epigenetics into an extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) increases the explanatory power of evolutionary analyses of human history. NCT allows identification of distinct social inheritance and cultural inheritance and can thereby account for how an existing-but-dynamic social system yields variable influences across individuals and also how these individuals’ microlevel actions can feed back to alter the dynamic heterogeneously across time and space. An analysis of Chinese footbinding, as it was ending during the first (...)
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  • Understanding Sport and Body Culture in Japan.John Horne - 2000 - Body and Society 6 (2):73-86.
    This article argues that the recent growth of interest in the body in Western social science has been largely based on Western assumptions of social development. In particular, studies of sport and body culture more generally have either ignored non-Western societies, such as Japan, or sustained stereotypical views of Japanese culture. As a small amount of research being developed by anthropologists suggests, the study of sport and body culture in Japan reveals similarities and differences with the West. The pattern of (...)
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  • Shaping the New Woman: The Dilemma of Shen in China’s Republican Period.Shaoqian Zhang - 2018 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 17 (3):401-420.
    As a response to China’s experiences with European colonialism, a number of political and intellectual movements emerged during the late 19th and early 20th century, with the objective to inculcate certain desirable qualities into its citizens, particularly the modern woman. This article compares the modern Chinese concept of the physical body with that of the traditional ideal Confucian body. By emphasizing shenti as a vessel for objective knowledge amid the construction of a politically-desired social order, Chinese activists adapted a Western, (...)
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