A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
1. Auflage Mai 2005
544 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22955-1
John Wiley & Sons
This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world's most distinguished scholars of Japan.
* Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation building; majority and minority cultures; genders and sexualities; and fashion and food cultures
* Resists stale and misleading stereotypes, by presenting new perspectives on Japanese culture and society
* Makes Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country
Synopses of Contents.
Notes on Contributors.
Part I: Introduction.
Part II: Cultures, Histories, and Identities.
Part III: Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments.
Part IV: Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification.
Part V: Body, Blood, Self, and Nation.
Part VI: Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics.
Index
Notes on Contributors.
Part I: Introduction.
Part II: Cultures, Histories, and Identities.
Part III: Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments.
Part IV: Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification.
Part V: Body, Blood, Self, and Nation.
Part VI: Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics.
Index
"This groundbreaking symposium will serve scholars well as a
reference volume ... Challenging yet accessible, this is essential
stock for all academic libraries, and for reference libraries with
any interest in disciplines spanned or in Far East Studies.
Blackwell Companions are setting an admirable standard as they
blaze new trails."
Reference Reviews
"This is a handsomely produced volume in the recently launched
Blackwell series of companions to the major fields of anthropology.
... Well-written and comprehensively documented."
Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Despite the magnitude of the task, Robertson has
succeeded in this collection. Taken together, these 29 original
chapters provide historical and theoretical grounding across a
range of subjects. The diverse approaches taken here offer insight
into a great variety of cultural aspects and social players, but
articulate a 'Japan' that eludes any claims of
homogeneity."
Steffi Richter, Universität Leipzig
"This Companion provides amazingly wide coverage on
contemporary Japan. What's more, it challenges the very idea of
anthropology in interesting ways. Although written by experts in
the field, it will be of such great interest to students and others
new to the field that it may well spark the imagination of the next
Ruth Benedict in the making."
Kazue Muta, Osaka University
"A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a rich
collection by Japanese and international researchers that
demystifies Japanese culture and society. Challenging static and
ahistorical perceptions of Japan, it ranges widely across space and
time to provide an innovative and critical study of minorities,
gender, culture, education, family, ritual, citizenship, and
more."
Mark Selden, Binghamton and Cornell
Universities
"This is without doubt a creative, informative, and
conscientiously argued book from which anthropologists and other
students of Japan will have much to learn."
Current Anthropology
reference volume ... Challenging yet accessible, this is essential
stock for all academic libraries, and for reference libraries with
any interest in disciplines spanned or in Far East Studies.
Blackwell Companions are setting an admirable standard as they
blaze new trails."
Reference Reviews
"This is a handsomely produced volume in the recently launched
Blackwell series of companions to the major fields of anthropology.
... Well-written and comprehensively documented."
Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Despite the magnitude of the task, Robertson has
succeeded in this collection. Taken together, these 29 original
chapters provide historical and theoretical grounding across a
range of subjects. The diverse approaches taken here offer insight
into a great variety of cultural aspects and social players, but
articulate a 'Japan' that eludes any claims of
homogeneity."
Steffi Richter, Universität Leipzig
"This Companion provides amazingly wide coverage on
contemporary Japan. What's more, it challenges the very idea of
anthropology in interesting ways. Although written by experts in
the field, it will be of such great interest to students and others
new to the field that it may well spark the imagination of the next
Ruth Benedict in the making."
Kazue Muta, Osaka University
"A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan is a rich
collection by Japanese and international researchers that
demystifies Japanese culture and society. Challenging static and
ahistorical perceptions of Japan, it ranges widely across space and
time to provide an innovative and critical study of minorities,
gender, culture, education, family, ritual, citizenship, and
more."
Mark Selden, Binghamton and Cornell
Universities
"This is without doubt a creative, informative, and
conscientiously argued book from which anthropologists and other
students of Japan will have much to learn."
Current Anthropology
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.
