Mark James Hudson is a British

United Kingdom

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 academic and an anthropologist interested in multicultural Japan. As an archaeologist in Japan, his area of specialization are the Jomon period

Jomon period

The is the time in Japanese prehistory from about 14,000 BC to 300 BC.The term jōmon means "cord-patterned" in Japanese. This refers to the pottery style characteristic of the Jōmon culture, and which has markings made using sticks with cords wrapped around them...

 and the Yayoi period

Yayoi period

The is an Iron Age era in the history of Japan traditionally dated 300 BC to 300 AD. It is named after the neighbourhood of Tokyo where archaeologists first uncovered artifacts and features from that era. Distinguishing characteristics of the Yayoi period include the appearance of new...

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Early life

Hudson was awarded his M.Phil in East Asian Archaeology at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 in 1988. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo

, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...

. His doctoral dissertation investigated the Jomon-Yayoi transition in the Kanto region

Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Within its boundaries, slightly more than 40 percent of the land area is the Kantō Plain....

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Career

Hudson is a Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University

Nishikyushu University

is a private university in Kanzaki, Saga, Japan. The school was established in 1968.-External links:*...

. He was formerly a member of the faculty of the University of Tsukuba

University of Tsukuba

is located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 15,000 students...

. He is a member of the editorial board of the Japanese academic journal, Anthropological Science.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Mark Hudson, OCLC

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encompasses roughly 6 works in 10 publications in 1 language and 800+ library holdings.
Books

• Archaeological Approaches to Ritual and Religion in Japan (1992)
• Ruins of identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1400 (1995)

Journals

• "Pots not People: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Postwar Japanese Archaeology," Critique of Anthropology. December 2006, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 411–434; doi: 10.1177/0308275X06070123