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...

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