Eiko Ikegami

Eiko Ikegami (池上英子^?) is a Japanese academic, author and professor of Sociology at the New School of Social Research in New York.^[1]

Early life

Ikegami was awarded her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1989.^[1]

Career

Ikegami is Chair and Professor of Sociology at the New School of Social Research in New York.^[1]

She is associated in a Tokyo Foundation research project as a fellow of the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institution (VCASI, pronounced “vee-kasi”).^[2]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Eiko Ikegami, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 10+ publications in 2 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.^[3]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• Praying for Peace: for the Generations that Do Not Know War (1982)
• Disciplining the Japanese: the Reconstruction of Social Control in Tokugawa Japan (1989)
• The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (1995); Japanese translation: Meiyo to junnō: samurai seishin no rekishi shakaigaku (名誉と順応: サムライ精神の歴史社会学^?) (2000)
• Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and Political Origins of Japanese Culture (2005); Japanese translation: Bi to reisetsu no kizuna : Nihon ni okeru kōsai bunka no seijiteki kigen (美と礼節の絆: 日本における交際文化の政治的起源^?) (2005)

Honors

• Association for Asian Studies, John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 2004.^[4]

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