Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham

[S3E3] 🎎 Constructing National Histories with Dr Luke Edgington Brown


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Oliver is joined by Luke Edgington Brown, PhD in Archaeology from the University of East Anglia, to discuss the role of archaeology in creating national histories. Luke’s research looked at the work of William Gowland on kofun imperial burial mounds during Japan’s industrial Meiji era, and so today we look at the relationship between the burial mounds of Japan’s emperors and the narrative constructed at the time for the newly restored Meiji emperor.

Luke's thesis is available here.

IMAGE AND AUDIO CREDITS

Intro-outro music: jasonszklarek / MotionElements.com

[L] Mori-shogunzuka-kofun zenkei.JPG by Saigen Jiro

[C] UEA grad students Luke Edgington Brown, Megan Good and Ionetta Vergi  visited the KAHAKU Research Section at Tsukuba with Uchino Yuko and  Yamada Tadasu from the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.

Courtesy of a Daiwa Award from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in summer 2012

[R] William Gowland.

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