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Complex societies in Japan: archaeology, history and mythology - J. Edward KidderJr., Himiko and Japan's elusive chiefdom of Yamatai: archaeology, history, and mythology. xiv+402 pages, 40 illustrations, 16 tables. 2007. Honolulu (HI): University of Hawai'i Press; 978-0-8248-3035-9 hardback $67. - Koji Mizoguchi. Archaeology, society and identity in modern Japan. xv+186 pages, 33 illustrations, 1 table. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-84953-5 hardback £45 & $80. - Gina L. Barnes State formation in Japan: emergence of a 4th-century ruling elite. xxii+262 pages, 44 illustrations, 16 tables. 2007. Abingdon & New York: Routledge; 978-0-415-31178 hardback £70; 978-0-203-46287-4 ebook.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Simon Kaner*
Affiliation:
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, University of East Anglia, 64 The Close, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK (Email: s.kaner@sainsbury-institute.org)

Abstract

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Type
Review article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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