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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 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 Frühstück 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...
