Takie Sugiyama Lebra was a Japanese anthropologist and professor.
10 Facts About Takie Lebra
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Takie Lebra was born in a rural village in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Takie Lebra attended primary school in Japan, graduating from Tsuda College in Tokyo in 1951.
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Takie Lebra graduated from Gakushuin University in Tokyo with a BA in Political Science in 1954 and then completed her studies at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving an MA in Political Science in 1960 and a PhD in Sociology in 1967.
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Takie Lebra held visiting positions at the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, Oxford Brookes University, Harvard University, and the National University of Singapore.
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Takie Lebra was a popular teacher with her courses attracting many students.
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Takie Lebra was an author, having written 7 books about Japanese culture and selling over 66,000 copies.
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Takie Lebra has won multiple awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Council for International Exchange, a Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a Japan Foundation Research Fellowship.
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Takie Lebra received awards from the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
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Takie Lebra was a board member for the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the US-Japan Women's Journal and the Journal of Japanese Studies.