Publications by Michio Kitahara

 

 

”...it is hard not to admire the range of his scholarship...”

(The late Edward E. Jones, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University,

in Contemporary Psychology, 1970, vol. 15, no, 9, p.586)

 

       

    

 

                               I. Books and Monographs

 

1967      An Essay on Culture: A Definition of Culture and its Implications to

          the Study of Sociocultural Dynamics.  Uppsala: Sociologiska

          Institutionen.

 

1969a     An Axiomatic Theory of Balance:  A Study of Self in the Sociocultural

          Environment.  Uppsala: Skriv Service.

 

1971a     Twelve Propositions on the Self:  A Study of Cognitive Consistency in

          the Sociological Perspective.  Uppsala: Sociologiska Institutionen.

 

1989a     Children of the Sun:  The Japanese and the Outside World.  New York:

          St. Martin's Press and Palgrave Macmillan.

 

1991a     The Tragedy of Evolution:  The Human Animal Confronts Modern Society.

          New York: Praeger.

 

1995      The Entangled Civilization:  Democracy, Equality, and Freedom at a

          Loss.  Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.

 

1996a     Children of the Sun:  The Japanese and the Outside World.  Honolulu,

          Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, and London: Routledge.

 

1997      The African Revenge:  The Age of Regression and the Decline of the

          West.  Columbus, Ohio: Pine Island Press.

 

2001      Naze Taiheiyo Senso ni Nattanoka (Why Did the Pacific War Break Out?).

          Tokyo: TBS-Britannica.

 

2003      The African Revenge: The Age of Regression and the Decline of the West.

          North Charleston, South Carolina: Phoenix Archives.

 

2004a     Gendai Ongaku wa Naze Tsumaranaika (Why Is Contemporary Music

          Uninteresting?).  Iwamuro, Niigata, Japan: Nekono Denshi Shuppan.

 

2004b     Makkasa ga "Horibata Tenno" ni Nattekara (Since MacArthur Became

          "Moatside Emperor").  Iwamuro, Niigata, Japan: Nekono Denshi Shuppan.

 

2004c     Seiyojin o "Hakujin" to Yobunowa Yamero (Stop Calling Westerners

          "Whites.").  Iwamuro, Niigata, Japan: Nekono Denshi Shuppan.

 

2005      Yojika  suru  Nihonjin  (The Regressing Japanese).  Tokyo: Liberta

          Shuppan.

 

2006      Ikiuma no Me o nuku Seiyo Bunmei (Wicked Western Civilization).

          Tokyo: Jissen Sha.

 

2007a     Rokku Bunka ga Seiyo wo Horobosu (Rock Culture Drives Western

          Civilization to a Decline).  Tokyo: Kadensha.

 

2007b     Kiiro ni Egakareru Seiyojin (Westerners are Described as Yellow-

          skinned). Tokyo: Kadensha.

 

2009a     Gendai Ongaku to Gendai Bijyutsu ni itaru Rekishi (The History of

          Contemporary Art and Music).  Tokyo: Kadensha.

 

2009b     Datsu Seiyo no Minshushugi e (Toward a Non-Western Democracy).

          Tokyo: Kadensha.  

 

 

 

                                     II.  Articles

 

 

1962      Flathead, Blackfoot, Dakota Indian Ongaku no Bunkahenyo, Zanzon,

          Shugo [Acculturation, Survival, and Syncretism in Blackfoot, Flathead,

          and Dakota Music]. Minzokugaku Kenkyu [Japanese Journal of Ethnology] 

          26(3): 45-48.

 

1963      A Brief History of Linguistics in the United States.  University of

          Montana, Anthropology and Sociology Papers 23.

 

1964      Oppna och Slutna Erfarenheter [Open and Closed Experience]. 

          Sociologisk Forskning 1(3): 113-119.

 

1966      Kayokyoku: An Example of Syncretism Involving Scale and Mode.

          Ethnomusicology 10(3): 271-284.

 

1969b     A Formal Model of Syncretism in Musical Scale.  Psychologia 12(3-4):

          175-178.

 

1970      An Axiomatic Model of Self.  Acta Sociologica 13(1): 30-39.

 

1971b     A Formal Model of Syncretism in Scales.  1970 Yearbook of

          International Folk Music Council, University of Illinois Press, pp.

          121-126.

 

1974a     On the Consequences of Status Incongruence.  International

          Behavioural Scientist 6(2): 69-82.

 

1974b     Living Quarter Arrangements in Polygyny and Circumcision and

          Segregation of Males at Puberty.  Ethnology 13(4): 401-413.

 

1974c     A Function of Marriage Ceremony.  Anthropologica 16(2): 163-175.

 

1974d     A Theme of Japanese Culture.  Folklore 16(9): 283-299.

 

1975a     Consecuencias del Imbalance Cognoscitivo [Consequences of Cognitive

          Imbalance].  Revista Latinoamericana de Psicologia 7(1):

          53-64.

 

1975b     Significance of the Father for the Son's Masculine Identity. 

          Behavior Science Research 10(1): 1-17.

 

1976a     Legal Theory and Theory of Culture.  International Behavioural

          Scientist 8(1): 1-10.

 

1976b     Rensakei Kori Hoshiki ni yoru Jiko no Moderu [The Model of the Self

          based on the Axiomatic Chain Method].  Gendai Shakaigaku

          [Contemporary Sociology] 3(2): 130-158.

 

1976c     Polygyny: Insufficient Father-Son Contact and Son's Masculine

          Identity.  Archives of Sexual Behavior 5(3): 201-209.

 

1976d     A Cross-Cultural Test of the Freudian Theory of Circumcision.

          International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy 5:

          535-546.

 

1977      Some Thoughts over the Meaning of Culture.  International Review of

          History and Political Science 14(1): 71-84.

 

1978      Social Contact Versus Bodily Contact: A Qualitative Difference

          Between Father and Mother for the Son's Masculine Identity. 

          Behavioral Science Research 13(4): 273-285.

 

1979      A Model of Cognitive Structure: A Preliminary Sketch. Technological

          University of Nagaoka, Research Reports 1(1): 145-157.

 

1981a     Men's Heterosexual Fear Due to Reciprocal Inhibition.  Ethos 9(1):

          37-50.

 

1981b     Some Psychoanalytical Thoughts over Ear-Piercing.  Psychology

          18(2-3):46-49.

 

1981c     The Japanese and Defense Mechanisms.  Journal of Psychoanalytic

          Anthropology 4(4): 467-479.

 

1982a     Male Puberty Rites: A Path Analytic Model.  Adolescence 17: 293-304.

 

1982b     Path Analysis and Hologeistic Research.  Behavior Science Research

          17(3-4): 159-172.

 

1982c     Menstrual Taboos and the Importance of Hunting.  American

          Anthropologist 84(4): 901-903.

 

1983a     Popular Culture in Japan: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation.  Journal

          of Popular Culture 17(1): 103-110.

 

1983b     Female Puberty Rites: Reconsideration and Speculation.  Adolescence

          18: 957-964.

 

1984a     Female Physiology and Female Puberty Rites.  Ethos 12(2): 132-150.

 

1984b     Are They Really Rivals?  Eastern Anthropologist 37(2): 153-157.

 

1984c     Japanese Responses to the Defeat in World War II.  International

          Journal of Social Psychiatry 30(3): 178-187.

 

1985a     Psychoanalytic Aspects of Japanese Militarism.  International

          Interactions 12(1):1-20.

 

1985b     Psychoanalytic Themes in Japanese Literature.  Psychiatric Forum

          13(1):66-75.

 

1985c     Popular Culture in Japan: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation. 

          Kaleidoscope Kyoto 15: 30-34.

 

1985d     Cognition of Size and Evolutionary Advantage.  Psychology 22(3-4):

          49-50.

 

1985e     Women's Workload and Rejection of Children.  Journal of Social

          Psychology 125(6): 789-790.

 

1986a     The Rise of Four Mottoes in Japan Before and After the Meiji

          Restoration.  Journal of Asian History 20(1): 54-64.

 

1986b     Commodore Perry and the Japanese: A Study in the Dramaturgy of

          Power.  Symbolic Interaction 9(1): 53-65.

 

1986c     Dietary Tryptophan Ratio and Suicide: A Cross-National Study.

          International Journal of Biosocial Research 8(1): 53-60.

 

1986d     Tryptophan Uptake From Diet and the Incidence of Suicide.  Biology

          and Society 3(2): 74-79.

 

1986e     Dietary Tryptophan Ratio and Homicide in Western and Southern

          Europe.  Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine 1(1): 13-16.

 

1987a     Self Hatred Among Japanese. Sociologus 37(1): 79-88.

 

1987b     Perception of Parental Acceptance and Rejection Among Swedish

          University Students.  Child Abuse and Neglect 11(2): 223-227.

 

1987c     Dietary Tryptophan Ratio and Suicide in the United Kingdom, Ireland,

          the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.  Omega:

          Journal of Death and Dying 18(1): 71-76.

 

1987d     Japanese Attitudes Toward the Chinese and the Koreans  in History.

          Sociologia Internationalis 25(1): 85-96.

 

1987e     Insufficient Ascorbic Acid Uptake From the Diet and the Tendency for

          Suicide. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine  2(4): 217-218.

 

1987f     The Western Impact on Japanese Racial Self-Image.  Journal of

          Developing Societies 3(2): 184-189.

 

1988a     Japan's Status Incongruence as a Possible Factor in World War II.

          International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 25(1-2): 47-53.

 

1988b     The Nazi Concentration Camp and the Occupied Japan: Responses in Two

          Historical Situations.  Journal of Psychohistory 16(2): 191-204.

 

1989b     Douglas MacArthur as a Father Figure in Occupied Japan After World

          War II.  International Social Science Review 64(1): 20-28.

 

1989c     Childhood in Japanese Culture.  Journal of Psychohistory 17(1):

          43-72.

 

1989d     American Anthropology as Ethnoscience.  Eastern Anthropologist 42(2):

          205-210.

 

1990      A Precursor Study of the Indoleamine and Catecholamine Hypotheses of

          Depression Using the Dietary Tryptophan and Tyrosine Ratios. 

          Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine 5(4): 210-214.

 

1991b     Knock! Knock!: The Story of the Perry Mission and the Reopening of

          Japan.  Japan Digest 1(4): 54-58.

 

1994      Honorific Ambiguity and Conflict in Japan.  Sociologus 44(2):

          179-189.

 

1996b     The Primatological Reason for the Problems of Our Time. 

          International Review of Sociology 6(3): 317-325.

 

1996c     Stimulus Seeking Behaviour and a Definition of Culture.  Eastern

          Anthropologist 49(2): 165-180.

 

1997      Western Egoism.  Eastern Anthropologist 50(3-4): 519-531.

 

2000      The Theoretical Root.   AIM Magazine 27(1):8-12.

 

2002      Japans tiefe Krankung.  Schweizer Monatshefte 82(3/4):31-34.

 

 

                          III. Reviews and Review Articles

 

 

1989e     Incest--Japanese Style.  Review of Misshitsu no Haha to Ko [Mother

          and Child in the Closed Room] by Kimi Kawana, and Kinjirareta Sei

          [Forbidden Sex] edited by Mutsuo Takahashi.  Journal of Psychohistory

          16(4): 445-450.

 

1989f     Review of Interpretation in Psychoanalytic Anthropology, edited by

          W. Kracke and G. Herdt [Special Issue of Ethos 15(1), 1987]. 

          Journal of Psychohistory 16(4): 465-466.