Village Autonomy and Articulation with the State: The case of Tokugawa Japan

Reprinted from The Journal of Asian Studies (Vol. 25, 1965, pp. 19–32). Harumi Befu is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University. His Major interests have been in cultural evolution, the culture history of Japan, social organization and interpersonal relationships in Japan. He is the author of Japan: An Anthropological Introduction.