A Companion to the Anthropology of JapanISBN: 978-1-4051-8289-8
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544 pages
March 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Synopsis of Contents viii
Notes on Contributors xviii
Part I: Introduction 1
1 Introduction: Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology 3
Jennifer Robertson
Part II: Cultures, Histories, and Identities 17
2 The Imperial Past of Anthropology in Japan 19
Katsumi Nakao
3 Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology and Postwar Legacies 36
Walter Edwards
4 Feminism, Timelines, and History-Making 50
Tomomi Yamaguchi
5 Making Majority Culture 59
Roger Goodman
6 Political and Cultural Perspectives on ‘‘Insider’’ Minorities 73
Joshua Hotaka Roth
7 Japan’s Ethnic Minority: Koreans 89
Sonia Ryang
8 Shifting Contours of Class and Status 104
Glenda S. Roberts
9 The Anthropology of Japanese Corporate Management 125
Tomoko Hamada
10 Fashioning Cultural Identity: Body and Dress 153
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni
11 Genders and Sexualities 167
Sabine Fru¨hstu¨ck
Part III: Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments 183
12 On the ‘‘Nature’’ of Japanese Culture, or, Is There a Japanese Sense of Nature? 185
D. P. Martinez
13 The Rural Imaginary: Landscape, Village, Tradition 201
Scott Schnell
14 Tokyo’s Third Rebuilding: New Twists on Old Patterns 218
Roman Cybriwsky
15 Japan’s Global Village: A View from the World of Leisure 231
Joy Hendry
Part IV: Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification 245
16 Formal Caring Alternatives: Kindergartens and Day-Care Centers 247
Eyal Ben-Ari
17 Post-Compulsory Schooling and the Legacy of Imperialism 261
Brian J. McVeigh
18 Theorizing the Cultural Importance of Play: Anthropological Approaches to Sports and Recreation of Japan 279
Elise Edwards
19 Popular Entertainment and the Music Industry 297
Shuhei Hosokawa
20 There’s More than Manga: Popular Nonfiction Books and Magazines 314
Laura Miller
Part V: Body, Blood, Self, and Nation 327
21 Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage 329
Jennifer Robertson
22 The Ie (Family) in Global Perspective 355
Emiko Ochiai
23 Constrained Person and Creative Agent: A Dying Student’s Narrative of Self and Others 380
Susan Orpett Long
24 Nation, Citizenship, and Cinema 400
Aaron Gerow
25 Culinary Culture and the Making of a National Cuisine 415
Katarzyna Cwiertka
Part VI: Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics 429
26 Historical, New, and ‘‘New’’ New Religions 431
Ian Reader
27 Folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues 452
Noriko Kawahashi
28 Women Scientists and Gender Ideology 467
Sumiko Otsubo
29 Preserving Moral Order: Responses to Biomedical Technologies 483
Margaret Lock
Index 501