A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

Notes on Contributors.

Part I: Introduction:.

1. Introduction: Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology (Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan).

Part II: Cultures, Histories, and Identities:.

2. The Imperial Past of Anthropology in Japan: (Katsumi Nakao, Osaka City University).

3. Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology and Postwar Legacies: Walter Edwards (Tenri University).

4. Feminism, Timelines, and History-Making: Tomomi Yamaguchi (University of Chicago).

5. Making Majority Culture: Roger Goodman (University of Oxford).

6. Political and Cultural Perspectives on ‘Insider’ Minorities: Joshua Hotaka Roth (Mount Holyoke College).

7. Japan’s Ethnic Minority: Koreans: Sonia Ryang (Johns Hopkins University).

8. Shifting Contours of Class and Status: Glenda S. Roberts (Waseda University).

9. The Anthropology of Japanese Corporate Management: Tomoko Hamada (College of William and Mary).

10. Fashioning Cultural Identity: Body and Dress: Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni (Tel Aviv University).

11. Genders and Sexualities: Sabine Frühstück (University of California, Santa Barbara).

Part III: Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments:.

12. On the ‘Nature’ of Japanese Culture, or, Is There a Japanese Sense of Nature?: D. P. Martinez (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London).

13. The Rural Imaginary: Landscape, Village, Tradition: Scott Schnell (University of Iowa).

14. Tokyo’s Third Rebuilding: New Twists on Old Patterns: Roman Cybriwsky (Temple University, Japan and USA).

15. Japan’s Global Village: A View from the World of Leisure: Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes University, and St Antony’s College, University of Oxford).

Part IV: Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification:.

16. Formal Caring Alternatives: Kindergartens and Day-Care Centers: Eyal Ben-Ari (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

17. Post-Compulsory Schooling and the Legacy of Imperialism: Brian Mcveigh (University of Arizona, Tucson).

18. Theorizing the Cultural Importance of Play: Anthropological Approaches to Sports and Recreation: Elise Edwards (Butler University).

19. Popular Entertainment and the Music Industry: Shuhei Hosokawa (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto).

20. There’s More Than Manga: Popular Nonfiction Books and Magazines: Laura Miller (Loyola University, Chicago).

Part V: Body, Blood, Self, and Nation:.

21. Biopower:Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage: Jennifer Robertson (University of Michigan).

22. The Ie, the Modern Family, and Beyond: Emiko Ochiai (Kyoto University).

23. Constrained Person and Creative Agent: A Dying Student’s Narrative of Self and Others: Susan Orpett Long (John Carroll University).

24. Nation, Citizenship, and Cinema: Aaron Gerow (Yale University).

25. Culinary Culture and the Making of a National Cuisine: Katarzyna Cwiertka (Leiden University).

Part VI: Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics:.

26. Historical, New, and ‘New’ New Religions: Ian Reader (Lancaster University).

27. Folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues: Noriko Kawahashi (Nagoya Institute of Technology).

28. Women Scientists and Gender Ideology: Sumiko Otsubo (Metropolitan State University).

29. Preserving Moral Order: Responses to Biomedical Technologies: Margaret Lock (McGill University).

Index