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