readings
You should read [1] daily materials (marked by ※), which are included in your reading kit. These readings will be then elaborated daily in a class (or group) discussion. In addition, each day two seminar members will be asked to provide an analytical synopsis (2-3 pages, 10 minutes) of the [2] extra class readings assigned for that day: summarizing their principle arguments and offering questions to be addressed in further discussion. These articles along with [3] recommended readings will be available from the instructor.
You should read [1] daily materials (marked by ※), which are included in your reading kit. These readings will be then elaborated daily in a class (or group) discussion. In addition, each day two seminar members will be asked to provide an analytical synopsis (2-3 pages, 10 minutes) of the [2] extra class readings assigned for that day: summarizing their principle arguments and offering questions to be addressed in further discussion. These articles along with [3] recommended readings will be available from the instructor.
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Required Book
Spielvogel, Laura. 2003. Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs. Durham: Duke University Press
Recommended Books
This is a brief list of books which I feel cover different aspects of the seminar topic and provide a glimpse of the various approaches to the embodied experiences of/in Japanese culture (available in English). Excerpts from these texts will form a part of the required readings, and included in your reading kit. The whole works, therefore, will not be discussed in class, but for those of you who are interested in the topic, it is strongly recommended to buy and read them.
Ashkenazi, Michael and John Clammer eds. 2000. Consumption and Material Culture in Contemporary Japan. London: Kegan Paul International
Lock, Margaret. 1993. Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. Berkeley: University of California Press
Singleton, John ed. 1998. Learning in Likely Places. Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
IGARASHI Yoshikuni. 2000. Bodies of Memory. Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press
Crary, Jonathan and Sanford Kwinter eds. 1992. Incorporations. Zone Series vol. 6. New York: Urzone
MURAKAMI Haruki. 1997. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. trans. Jay Rubin. New York: Knopf (orig., 1994–5 Nejimakidori Kuronikuru. Tokyo: Shincho sha)
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| I. Theorizing and Historicizing Embodiement in Japan |
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INTRO. THE END OF THE BODY: A BEGINNING |
CLASS READINGS ※Mauss, Marcel. 1973[1936]. Techniques of the body. Economy and Society 2(1):70-88. Also In Incorporations Jonathan Krary & Sanford Kwinter ed., 455-475. New York: Urzone. 1992. Martin, Emily. 1992. The End of the Body? American Ethnologist 19(1):121-140 RECOMMENDED Csordas, Thomas J. 1999. The Body’s Career in Anthropology. In Anthropological Theory Today. Henrietta L. Moore ed., 172-205. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Lock, Margaret and Nancy Scheper-Hughes. 1987. The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1(1):6-41 |
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HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE BODY IN JAPAN |
CLASS READINGS ※IGARASHI Yoshikuni. 2000. The Age of the Body. In Bodies of Memory. Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970., 47-72. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press Horne, John. 2000. Understanding sport and body culture in Japan. Body and Society 6(2): 73-86 Robertson, Jennifer. 2001. Japan's First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body and Blood. Body & Society 7(1):1-34 RECOMMENDED YAMAGUCHI Masao. 2001. Karakuri ningyo: the Ludic Relationship between Man and Machine in Tokugawa Japan. In Japan at Play: The Ludic and Logic of Power. Joy Hendry and Massimo Raven ed., Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series. London: Routledge Bourdaghs, Michael. 1998. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene. positions 6(3): 637-673 Cwiertka, Katarzyna. 1998. How Cooking Became a Hobby: Changes in Attitude Toward Cooking in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. In The Culture of Japan as Seen Through Its Leisure. Sepp Linhart and Sabine Frühstück. eds., 41-58. New York: SUNY Press |
| II. The Attunement of the Body or, Learning the Ways to Act Naturally |
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NURTURING PRACTICES AND FAMILIAL BODIES |
CLASS READINGS ※Caudill, William & David W. Plath. 1974. Who sleeps by whom? Parent-child involvement in urban Japanese families. In Japanese culture and behavior: Selected readings. Takie S. Lebra & William P. Lebra eds., 277-312. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii Ben-Ari, Eyal. 1996. From mothering to othering: organization, culture, and nap time in a Japanese day care center. Ethos 24(1): 136-64 Benedict, Ruth. 1989 [1946]. The circle of human feelings. In The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture., 177-194. Boston: Houghton Mifflin RECOMMENDED Soo-Jin Lee, Sandra. 2000. Disappearing tongues and bodily memories: the aging of first- generation resident Koreans in Japan. Ethos 28(2):198-223 Hendry, Joy. 1984. Shoes: The Early Learning of an Important Distinction in Japanese Society. In Europe Interprets Japan. Gordon Daniels ed. Tenterden, Kent: Norbury |
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SPECIAL TOPIC 1: MARTIAL ARTS AND THE WEARING OF KIMONO |
CLASS READINGS ※INOUE Shun. 1998. The invention of the martial arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan judo. In Mirror Of Modernity: Invented Traditions Of Modern Japan. Stephen Vlastos ed., 163-173. Berkeley: University of California Press Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra. 1999. Kimono and the Construction of Gendered and Cultural Identities. Ethnology 38(4):351-370 Chan, Stephen. 2000. The Construction and Export of Culture as Artefact: The Case of Japanese Martial Arts. Body & Society 6(1):69-74 RECOMMENDED Hendry, Joy. 1995. Wrapping of the Body. In Wrapping Culture. Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies., 70-97. Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Cultural Forms. Oxford: Clarendon Press Ots, Thomas. 1994. The Silenced Body--the expressive Lieb: On the dialectic of mind and life in Chinese cathartic healing. In Embodiment and Experience. Thomas Csordas ed., 116-139. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Chapman, Kris. 2004. Ossu! Sporting masculinities in a Japanese karate dojo. Japan Forum 16(2): 315-35 |
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THE FORCE OF HABIT, OR BODILY LEARNING IN LIKELY PLACES |
CLASS READINGS ※Kelly, William W. 1998. Learning to Swing: Oh Sadaharu and the pedagogy and practice of Japanese baseball. In Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan. John Singleton ed., 265-285. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Kondo, Dorinne K. 1990. Disciplined Selves. In Crafting Selves. Power, Gender and the Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace., 76-118. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press Clark, Scott. 1998. Learning at the public bathhouse. In Learning in Likely Places. Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan. John Singleton ed., 239-252. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press RECOMMENDED Madono, Kathryn Ellen. 1998. Craft and regulatory learning in a neighborhood garage. In Learning in Likely Places. Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan. John Singleton ed., 134-53. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press Borovoy, Amy. 2001. Recovering From Codependence in Japan. American Ethnologist 28(1): 94-118 |
| III. Biopolitics: the Mediation Between Selves, Things and Society | ||
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EMBODIED ETHICS IN SCHOOL, WORK AND RELIGION |
CLASS READINGS ※Hardacre, Helen. 1997. The Practice of Mizuko Kuyo and the Changing Nature of Abortion. In Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan., 55-100. California: University of California Press McVeigh, Brian. 2000. Learning to Wear Ideology: School Uniform. In Wearing Ideology. State, Schooling, and Self-Presentation in Japan., 47-103. Dress, Body, and Culture Series. Oxford: Berg Press Dasgupta, Romit 2003. Creating corporate warriors: the “salaryman” and masculinity in Japan. In Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan. Morris Low and Kam Louie eds. 118-136. London: Routledge Curzon RECOMMENDED Reader, Ian. 1994. Japanese Religions. In Rites of Passage. Jean Holm and John Bowker. eds., 169-184. New York: Pinter Publishers MATSUNAGA Kazuto. 1998. The importance of the left hand in two types of ritual activity in Japanese villages. In Interpreting Japanese Society: Anthropological Approaches. Joy Hendry ed., 182-94. 2nd edition. London & New York: Routledge Allison, Anne. 1996. Japanese mothers and obentōs: the lunch box as ideological state apparatus. In Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan., 81-104. Berkeley: University of California Press |
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SPECIAL TOPIC 2: SPORT, AEROBICS AND THE FEMALE BODY |
CLASS READINGS ※Spielvogel, Laura. 2003. Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs. Durham: Duke University Press RECOMMENDED Manzenreiter, Wolfram. 2004. Her place in the ‘House of Football’: globalisation, sexism and women’s football in East Asian societies. In Football Goes East. Business, Culture and the People’s Game in East Asia. Wolfram Manzenreiter and John Horne eds., 197-221. London/New York: Routledge |
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SPECIAL TOPIC 3: KAMPO AND THE FOOD-MEDICINE NEXUS |
CLASS READINGS ※Lock, Margaret. 1980. The East Asian Medical System in Urban Japan: Kanpo. In East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience., 109-144. Berkeley: University of California Press ※Ashkenazi, Michael and Jeanne Jacob. 2003. Diet and Health. In Food Culture in Japan., 171-176. London: Greenwood Press Breslau, Joshua. 2001. Pathways through the Border of Biomedicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Meeting of Medical Systems in a Japanese Psychiatry Department. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 25(3): 251-275 KURIYAMA Shigehisa. 1992. Between Mind and Eye: Japanese Anatomy in the Eighteenth Century. In Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Charles Leslie and Allan Young, eds., 21-43. Berkeley: University of California Press RECOMMENDED Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. 1984. Kanpo: Traditional Japanese Medicine of Chinese Origin. In Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan. An Anthropological View., 89-121. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Picone, Mary. 1986. The Ghost in the Machine: Religious Healing and Representations of the Body in Japan. In Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Two. Michael Feher et al. ed., 466-489. New York: Zone Publications Adams, Glyn. 2000. Shiatsu in Britain and Japan: personhood, holism and embodied aesthetics. Anthropology & Medicine 9(3): 245-265. |
| IV. The Quest to Overcome the Physical |
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SPECIAL TOPIC 4: GLOBAL CORPOREALITIES: SUSHI AND MANGA |
CLASS READINGS ※Bestor, Theodore C. 1999. Constructing Sushi: Food Culture, Trade, and Commodification in a Japanese Market. In Lives in Motion. S.O. Long ed., 151-90. Cornell East Asia Series 106. OHNUKI-Tierney, Emiko. 1997. McDonald’s in Japan: Changing Manners and Etiquette. In Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia. J.L. Watson ed., 161-182. California: Stanford University Press Bolton, Christopher A. 2002. From Wooden Cyborgs to Celluloid Souls: Mechanical Bodies in Anime and Japanese Puppet Theater. positions: east asia cultures critique 10(3):729-771 RECOMMENDED Cwiertka, Katarzyna J. 2002. Eating the homeland: Japanese expatriates in The Netherlands. In Asian Food: The Global and the Local. Katarzyna Cwiertka and Boudewijn Walraven eds., 133-152. Consumasian Book Series. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Grigsby, Mary. 1998. Sailormoon: Manga (Comics) and Anime (Cartoon) Superheroine Meets Barbie: Global Entertainment Commodity Comes to the United States. Journal of Popular Culture 32(1): 59-80 Anne Allison. 1996. Public Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan. In Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan., 147-176. Berkeley: University of California Press |
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FROM THE FETISH OF FLESH TO THE COMMODIFICATION OF BODIES |
CLASS READINGS ※Kelsky, Karen. 2001. Capital and the Fetish of the White Man. In Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams., 133-201. Duke University Press Ozawa-de Silva C. 2002. Beyond the Body/Mind? Japanese Contemporary Thinkers on Alternative Sociologies of the Body. Body & Society 8(2):21-38 Clammer, John. 1997. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body. In Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption., 110-134. London: Blackwell Publishing RECOMMENDED Miller, Laura. 2000. Media typifications and hip bijin. US-Japan Women's Journal 19:176-205 Frühstück, Sabine 2000. Treating the Body as Commodity: 'Body Projects' in Contemporary Japan. In Consumption and Material Culture in Contemporary Japan. Michael Ashkenazi and John Clammer eds., 139-157. London: Kegan Paul International |
| 10 | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE |
CLASS READINGS ※Lock, Margaret. 2004. Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death. Body & Society 10(2-3):135-152 YODA Hiroe. 2002. New Views on Disabilities and the Challenge to Social Welfare in Japan. Social Science Japan Journal 5(1):1-15 ITO Mizuko and OKABE Daisuke (forthcoming). Technosocial Situations: Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use. In Personal, Portable Intimate: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. Ito Mizuko, Matsuda Misa and Okabe Daisuke eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005 RECOMMENDED Miller, Elizabeth. 2002. What's In a Condom? – HIV and Sexual Politics in Japan. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 26(1):1-32 Cullinane, Joanne. 2002. "Net" - Working on the Web: Links Between Japanese HIV Patients in Cyberspace. In Japanese Cybercultures. Gottlieb, N., M. McLelland eds., 126-140. New York, London: RoutledgeCurzon Low, Morris; NAKAYAMA Shigeru, YOSHIOKA Hitoshi. 1999. The patient versus the doctor: changes in -medical care and attitudes to the body. Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan., 178-188. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |