https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520283206/robo-sapiens-japanicus Interview by Daniel White Daniel White: In addition to the variety of topics you have explored in Japan over your career, you have be…
“Are you free tomorrow?” “Sure, what’s going on?” “It’s a big day for Gramps! I’m taking him to the doctor. I guess someone from the ward office said…
Was Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” the signal for a coming US war on China? Is the current clash between the US and China a confrontation between an…
Are we developing emotional machines with all-too-human capacities for care? An interactive scene from Gatebox Inc.’s promotional video. Gatebox Inc. There is a moment in Spike Jonze’s film…
I began to sweat profusely when my Geiger counter registered a radiation level of 13 microsieverts per hour—a number that indicated a high level of radioactivity. Worried, I glanced…
Kwang Ok Kim , ed. Re-orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. Berghahn. New York, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-78920-067-6 Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University Kwang Ok …
by Kazuki Horiuchi Non-western countries, such as China and India, have become in the last decades major actors of international development (Madwsley 2013). Yet, distinguishing between traditional an…
Debatten um neue Armut und Prekarisierung betreffen die Kernthemen und -kompetenzen der Soziologie. Dies trifft nicht nur deshalb zu, weil soziale Ungleichheit eines der klassischen soziologischen The…
By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor serves me mochi (pounded rice cake) that she…
This. Almost buried in Anna Tsing’s book of mushrooming (“The Mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins” 2015 Princeton), a…
Source:https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sLNXt9DmC_U/hqdefault.jpg I was on snapchat, after the horrid update, and I went to the discovery section because it was too frustrating to figure out the actual snapch…
Here I present another of the Asian packbaskets that I examined in the ethnology collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. (See…
by Shuto Fukuoka It would not be an overstatement to say that the Japanese youth of today are significantly foreign to the one a couple of decades ago,…
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
Auslandaufenthalte während des Studiums liegen in China im Trend. Doch sich in ein solches Abenteuer zu stürzen, verlangt eine gute Vorbereitung. Auch die Wahl des Gastlandes gestaltet sich…
I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the top. They are father and son.…
I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the top. They are father and son.…
I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies at the top. They are father and son.…
[This is an invited post by Debra J Occhi, Miyazaki International College (aka Hyuga Natsuko1, yellow team). Debra is a linguistic anthropologist employed at Miyazaki International College. Her…
[This is an invited post by Debra J Occhi, Miyazaki International College (aka Hyuga Natsuko1, yellow team). Debra is a linguistic anthropologist employed at Miyazaki International College. Her…
While there are many conferences of potential interest to food anthropologists, last weekend (December 3-4, 2016), I attended a conference that I found particularly useful and inspiring: the…
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #22 series. Next in line for the Anthropologies #22 Food Issue, we have this essay by Christopher Laurent.…
Land rights are key in Colombia Indigenous people want land rights. Source: Bluedotpost.com The Washington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist Omaira Bolaños, Latin America program dire…
Shingo Hamada Osaka Shoin Women’s University Fermentation is a preservation technology often seen in Southeast Asia and East Asia, including fish sauce and fermented fish. However, naresaba (fermente…