Mark James Hudson (born 10 July 1963, in Roade) is a British archaeologist interested in multicultural Japan. His initial areas of specialization were the Jōmon period and the

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His later research has focused on areas of Japan outside state control, primarily islands and mountains. He excavated the Nagabaka site on Miyako Island.

Education

Hudson was educated at

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and the

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, University of London (BA, 1986). He was awarded his M.Phil in East Asian Archaeology at the

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in 1988. He earned his Ph.D. at the

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in 1996. His doctoral dissertation began with an investigation of the Jōmon-Yayoi transition in the Kanto region. but extended to a broader consideration of ethnogenesis in ancient Japan.

Career

Hudson was a Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University until 2016.
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He previously taught at Okayama University and the

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. From 2016 to 2018 he was Professor at the Shizuoka Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre but left citing issues of academic harassment from Shizuoka Prefecture. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and a Research Associate of the Institute of East Asian Studies, ENS de Lyon. He is a member of the editorial boards of the ''Journal of Occupational Science'', ''Archaeological Research in Asia'', and ''Asian Studies''.

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

* ''Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern'' (Cambridge University Press, 1996) (co-editor with Donald Denoon, Gavan McCormack and Tessa Morris-Suzuki) * * (co-editor) *

Journals

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Honors

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John Whitney Hall Book Prize The John Whitney Hall Book Prize has been awarded annually since 1994 by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Pioneer Japanese studies scholar John Whitney Hall is commemorated in the name of this prize. The Hall Prize acknowledges an outstandi ...

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