A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

This book is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the field's most distinguished scholars of Japan that, taken together, offers a comprehensive overview of the field.

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.

Synopsis of Contents	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction: Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology	p. 3
Cultures, Histories, and Identities	p. 17
The Imperial Past of Anthropology in Japan	p. 19
Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology and Postwar Legacies	p. 36
Feminism, Timelines, and History-Making	p. 50
Making Majority Culture	p. 59
Political and Cultural Perspectives on "Insider" Minorities	p. 73
Japan's Ethnic Minority: Koreans	p. 89
Shifting Contours of Class and Status	p. 104
The Anthropology of Japanese Corporate Management	p. 125
Fashioning Cultural Identity: Body and Dress	p. 153
Genders and Sexualities	p. 167
Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments	p. 183
On the "Nature" of Japanese Culture, or, Is There a Japanese Sense of Nature?	p. 185
The Rural Imaginary: Landscape, Village, Tradition	p. 201
Tokyo's Third Rebuilding: New Twists on Old Patterns	p. 218
Japan's Global Village: A View from the World of Leisure	p. 231
Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification	p. 245
Formal Caring Alternatives: Kindergartens and Day-Care Centers	p. 247
Post-Compulsory Schooling and the Legacy of Imperialism	p. 261
Theorizing the Cultural Importance of Play: Anthropological Approaches to Sports and Recreation of Japan	p. 279
Popular Entertainment and the Music Industry	p. 297
There's More than Manga: Popular Nonfiction Books and Magazines	p. 314
Body, Blood, Self, and Nation	p. 327
Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage	p. 329
The Ie (Family) in Global Perspective	p. 355
Constrained Person and Creative Agent: A Dying Student's Narrative of Self and Others	p. 380
Nation, Citizenship, and Cinema	p. 400
Culinary Culture and the Making of a National Cuisine	p. 415
Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics	p. 429
Historical, New, and "New" New Religions	p. 431
Folk Religion and its Contemporary Issues	p. 452
Women Scientists and Gender Ideology	p. 467
Preserving Moral Order: Responses to Biomedical Technologies	p. 483
Index	p. 501
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