Professor, Norris Brock Johnson
Other courses:
Art, Myth,
and Nature (Anthropology 334 / Folklore 334-
Aesthetic Perspective, Arts and Sciences)
Gardens, Shrines, and Temples of Japan (Anthropology 586; Asian Studies 596)
Concepts
of Nature: Cross-Cultural Perspecives (HNRS 438H;
Anthropology 438)
Selected publications:
2010 "Religion, Spirit, and the Idea of Garden."
Religious Studies Review (forthcoming)
2010 Tenryu-ji: The Life and Spirit of a Ky?to Garden.
Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press.
2004 "The Spiral Designs of Nature, and Craft."
In The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience. Pp.
74-82.
New York: Lark Books.
2003 "Mountain, Temple, and the Design of Movement: 13th Century
Japanese Zen Buddhist Landscapes."
In Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion. Michel Conan,
editor. Pp. 157-185.
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.
2001 "Gardens of the Heart."
Parabola 26(1):29-35.
2000 "Indigenous Architecture in Borneo: Traditional Patterns and
New Developments."
American Ethnologist 27(2):554-556.
1999 "A Song of Secret Places."
Pilgrimage 25(3&4):4-10.
1999 "Temple of the Abundant Flowing Spring [Zuisen-ji], Kamakura, Japan."
Kyoto Diary 5(2):1-6.
1994 "Buddhism and the Architectured Ethical Environment: Zuisen
Temple and Garden, Kamakura, Japan."
Tradition and Ideology in Building: Temples and Rituals 64:1-31.
Berkeley: University of California, Center for Environmental Design Research.
1993 "Muso Kokushi and the Cave in Zuisen Temple, Kamakura,
Japan: Buddhist Ethics, Environment, and Behavior."
In Environmental Ethics: Discourses and Cultural Traditions. Rana
P.B. Singh, editor. Pp. 123-140.
Varanasi: The National Geographical Society of India (concurrently printed
as) " Mus? Kokushi and the Cave
in Zuisen Temple, Kamakura, Japan: Buddhist Ethics, Environment,
and Behavior."
The National Geographic Journal of India 39:161-178.
1993 "Cannibals and Culture: The Protoanthropology of Michel de Montaigne."
Dialectical Anthropology 18:153-176.
1993 "Zen Buddhist Landscapes and the Idea of Temple: Muso Kokushi
and Zuisen-ji, Kamakura, Japan."
Architecture and Behavior 9:213-226.
1992 "Tenryu Temple and Garden: The Evolution of a Religious Landscape
in Medieval Japan."
Temples in Traditional Environments 49:1-30.
Berkeley: University of California, Center for Environmental Design
Research.
1991 "Garden as Sacred Space."
In The Power of Place. James Swan, editor. Pp. 167-187.
Wheaton: Quest Books.
1991 "Primordial Image and the Archetypal Design of Art."
Journal of Analytical Psychology 36:371-392.
1991 "Zuisen Temple and Garden, Kamakura, Japan: Design Form and
Phylogenetic Meaning."
Journal of Garden History 10:214-236.
1990 "Art and the Meaning of Things."
Reviews in Anthropology 17:221-234.
1989 "Angels Fear" [on Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology of the
Sacred, by Mary Catherine Bateson].
Journal of Psychohistory 15 516-519.
1989 "Anthropology and the Humanities: A Reconsideration."
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 14:82-89.
1989 "Geomancy, Sacred Geometry, and the Idea of a Garden: Tenryu
Temple, Kyoto, Japan."
Journal of Garden History 9:1-19.
1989 "Japanese Temple Gardens and the Apprentice Training of Priests."
In Apprenticeship: Theory and Method. Michael W. Coy, editor.
Pp. 301-338.
Albany: State University of New York Press.
1988 "Architecture as Construction of Consciousness: A Japanese
Temple and Garden."
Architecture and Behavior 4:229-249.
1988 "Image and Archetype: Male and Female as Metaphor in the Thought
of Carl G. Jung and Ogotemmêli of the Dogon."
Dialectical Anthropology 13:45-62.
1988 "Prehistoric European Decorated Caves: Structured Earth Environments,
Initiation, and Rites of Passage."
In Child Development Within Culturally-Structured Environments.
Jaan Valsiner, editor. Pp.227-267.
Norwood: Ablex.
.
1986 "The Idea of a Garden."
Japan Quarterly 33:81-84.
1986 "C.G. Jung's Concepts of Individuation and Psyche: A Dogon Critique."
Journal of African and Asian Studies 31:158-171.
1985 West Haven.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1983 "School Spaces and Architecture: The Social and Cultural Landscape
of Educational Environments."
Journal of American Culture 5:77-87.
1982 "Education as Environmental Socialization: Classroom Spatial
Patterns and Sociocultural Norms."
Anthropological Quarterly 55:31-43.
1980 "The Material Culture of Public School Classrooms: The Symbolic
Integration of Local Schools and National
Society."
Anthropology and Education Quarterly 11:173-190.
1976 "Notes Toward the Development of a Humanistic Anthropology."
Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 1:4-8.