Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951 is a prize-winning digital collection created at Ohio State. The collection was originally prepared by the late John W. Bennett, who passed away at 89 on February 74, 2005.
Bennett earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1946 and taught anthropology and sociology at Ohio State from 1946 to 1959. After leaving Ohio State, he taught at Washington University, where the following notice of his passing was posted. The notice mentions Bennett’s last work, a memoir about his field work in Japan during the period when he was on the faculty at Ohio State. The project, which is available at OSU Libraries’ web site, won the 2004 David Plath Media Award of the American Anthropological Association. Here’s a notice of that award from the Libraries’ home page:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Web Site Receives Plath Award: “Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan,” an OSU Libraries web site, has received the 2004 David Plath Media Award from the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA) of the American Anthropological Association. The site features photographs taken by anthropologist John W. Bennett in occupied Japan from 1948-1951, and was developed by his son, Dr. John M. Bennett, Curator of the Avant Writing Collection of the Rare Books & Manuscripts Library. SEAA is committed to developing international channels of communication among anthropologists throughout the world.
In 2004, Bennett also was awarded the Bronislaw Malinowski Award of the Society for Applied Anthropology. The notice on the SFAA web site includes a review of his career.
Originally posted as an email on February 3, 2005 — mhd
