A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Robertson has published many articles and book chapters on a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from the seventeenth century to the present. Her most recent research projects include Japanese colonial culture-making, eugenic modernity, war art, and comparative bioethics. She is the author of Native and Newcomer: Making and Unmaking a Japanese City (1991), Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (1998), and editor of Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2004). She is finishing a new book, Blood and Beauty: Eugenic Modernity and Empire in Japan . Klappentext A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Aiming to retire stale and misleading stereotypes, the authors present new perspectives on Japanese culture and society - past and present - in accessible language. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan covers a broad range of issues, controversies, and everyday practices, including the unacknowledged colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; legacies of nationalist research; eugenics and nation-building; majority and minority cultures; class and status; genders and sexualities; urban spectacle and rural 'undevelopment'; domestic, corporate, and educational ideologies and practices; the mass media, leisure, and 'infotainment' industries; women's and men's sports; fashion and food cultures; ideas of nature, life, and death; new and folk religions; and science and biotechnology. Collectively, these chapters not only demonstrate Japan's significance for anthropological research but also help make Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a reference volume for scholars, but is also designed to serve as a primary text for courses in anthropology and sociology, history, and Japan and East Asian Studies. Zusammenfassung A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which! taken together! offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Synopses of Contents.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 Fruhstuck (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 ...

Autorentext
Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Robertson has published many articles and book chapters on a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from the seventeenth century to the present. Her most recent research projects include Japanese colonial culture-making, eugenic modernity, war art, and comparative bioethics. She is the author of Native and Newcomer: Making and Unmaking a Japanese City (1991), Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (1998), and editor of Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2004). She is finishing a new book, Blood and Beauty: Eugenic Modernity and Empire in Japan.

Klappentext
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field. Aiming to retire stale and misleading stereotypes, the authors present new perspectives on Japanese culture and society - past and present - in accessible language. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan covers a broad range of issues, controversies, and everyday practices, including the unacknowledged colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; legacies of nationalist research; eugenics and nation-building; majority and minority cultures; class and status; genders and sexualities; urban spectacle and rural 'undevelopment'; domestic, corporate, and educational ideologies and practices; the mass media, leisure, and 'infotainment' industries; women's and men's sports; fashion and food cultures; ideas of nature, life, and death; new and folk religions; and science and biotechnology. Collectively, these chapters not only demonstrate Japan's significance for anthropological research but also help make Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a reference volume for scholars, but is also designed to serve as a primary text for courses in anthropology and sociology, history, and Japan and East Asian Studies.

Zusammenfassung
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan which, taken together, offer a comprehensive overview of the field.

Inhalt
Synopses of Contents.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 Fruhstuck (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 …

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