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Bernard Bernier

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Bernard Bernier (born 1942) is a Canadian anthropologist and Professor at the Université de Montréal, where he has been working since January 1970. His main topics of research are Japanese political economy, theories of social change, nationalism and social inequalities, and Watsuji Tetsurô's philosophy. Part of Bernier's work is devoted to debunking false ideas and clichés about Japan, such as the stereotype of a harmonious and homogeneous society. A native of Quebec, Bernard Bernier was an undergraduate student at Laval University from 1962 to 1964 and a Master's student at the University of British Columbia in 1964-65. He then moved to Cornell University, where he studied under the supervision of Robert J. Smith and received his PhD in anthropology in 1970. His doctoral dissertation focused on popular religion in a Japanese village. Throughout his career, Bernard Bernier has been Directeur d'études associé at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1983-84, interim Chair of the East Asian program at the Université de Montréal in 1984-85, and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the same university in 1998-2002 and 2010-14. He was also a member of the redaction committee of Anthropologie et Sociétés from 1997 to 2000. He is one of only two anthropologists who have received the Prix Marcel-Vincent (now Prix Acfas Thérèse Gouin-Décarie), awarded by the Association francophone pour le savoir to honor his major and long-standing contribution to the social sciences. Thesis "The Popular Religion of a Japanese Village and Its Transformation," Cornell University (PhD, Anthropology), 1970 Books Breaking the Cosmic Circle: Religion in a Japanese Village, 1975 Capitalisme, société et culture au Japon: Aux origines de l'industrialisation (Capitalism, Society and Culture in Japan: The Origins of Industrialization), 1988 Le Japon contemporain: Une économie nationale, une économie morale (Contemporary Japan: A National Economy, a Moral Economy), 1995 Le Japon en transition (Japan in Transition), in association with Vincent Mirza, 2007 Le Japon au travail (Japan at Work), in association with Vincent Mirza, 2009 Japanese Youth in the Conservative Elite Society: Essays on the Liberal Young Super-Achievers, with Hiroshi Itoh, 2015 Book Chapters "L'économie et la société japonaise face à la crise monétaire de 1971" (Japanese Economy and Society in the Face of the 1971 Monetary Crisis), in Le Japon: Mythes et réalités, by Robert Garry (ed.
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