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A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631229551)
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xThis 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
Author: Jennifer Robertson
ISBN-10: 0631229558
ISBN-13: 9780631229551
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2005
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.41lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.92w x 1.38d
By Jennifer Robertson
xJennifer 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.
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