Home›Sources›Napier, "Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment, and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's Spirited Away," Journal of Japanese Studies, 2006SourcesNapier, "Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment, and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's Spirited Away," Journal of Japanese Studies, 2006Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Napier, "Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment, and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's Spirited Away," Journal of Japanese Studies, 2006." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/napier-matter-out-of-place-spirited-away-jjs-2006.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Napier, "Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment, and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's Spirited Away," Journal of Japanese Studies, 2006. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/napier-matter-out-of-place-spirited-away-jjs-2006Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-napier-matter-out-of-place-carnival-cont, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Napier, "Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment, and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's Spirited Away," Journal of Japanese Studies, 2006}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/napier-matter-out-of-place-spirited-away-jjs-2006}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA peer reviewed article in the Journal of Japanese Studies (University of California Press), volume 32, issue 2, pages 287 to 310, by Susan J. Napier, a scholar of Japanese literature and animation at Tufts University, reading Spirited Away's premise of a stolen name and a hidden spirit world as a story about cultural recovery under the pressure of globalization, built around the folk concept of kamikakushi, being hidden away by the gods. Its strength is authorship by a leading academic specialist on Japanese animation in a peer reviewed area-studies journal. Its limit is that its interpretation is one scholarly reading among others, so it is cited here for its own specific argument rather than as a consensus account.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (11 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Tier one: a peer reviewed article in the Journal of Japanese Studies, University of California Press, by a specialist scholar of Japanese animation at Tufts University, reading Spirited Away through the folk concept of kamikakushi. Its limit is that its interpretation is one scholarly reading among others, cited here for its own specific argument rather than as a consensus account.NotesWell-attestedCited for the kamikakushi framing, the cultural-recovery reading of the stolen-name plot, and the Academy Award reception detail corroborated against Wikipedia.CitationAuthorWell-attestedSusan J. NapierPublisherWell-attestedJournal of Japanese Studies, University of California Press (volume 32, issue 2, pages 287 to 310)Publication YearWell-attested2006URLWell-attestedhttps://doi.org/10.1525/jjs.2006.32.2.287Source TypeWell-attestedpeer-reviewed articleClaims Backed By This Source (11 claims)This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.Screen Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.Well-attested10ArticlesA Name Taken Away, a Culture RecoveredScreen WorksSpirited Away (2001)SourcesNapier, "Matter Out of Place: Carnival, Containment, and Cultural Recovery in Miyazaki's Spirited Away," Journal of Japanese Studies, 2006General References1Screen WorksSpirited Away (2001)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year