A Japanese View Of Nature The World Of Living Things Kinji Imanishi by Kinji Imanishi 今西, 錦司, Asquith, Pamela J. 9780700716326, 0700716327 instant download after payment.

Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the
seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan,
both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about
it in the English-speaking world. This book makes the complete text
available in English for the first time and provides an extensive
introduction and notes to set the work in context. Imanishi's work,
based on a very wide knowledge of science and the natural world, puts
forward a distinctive view of nature and how it should be studied.
Imanishi's work is particularly important as a background to ecology,
primatology and human social evolution theory in Japan. Imanishi's views
on these subjects are extremely interesting because he formulated an
approach to viewing nature which challenged the usual international
ideas of the time, and which foreshadow approaches that have currency
today.