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Updated 1/28/2005

 

Resources for the study of the anthropology of Japan

 

compiled by Ted Bestor, Harvard University

 

 

Recent ethnographies and edited volumes on Japan in anthropology, sociology, and related disciplines (from approximately 1995 to the present, primarily English language)   list last updated August 2003; maintained by Ted Bestor <bestor@wjh.harvard.edu>

 

Anthropological dissertations on Japan in English  (list maintained by Professor William W. Kelly, Yale University)

 

Webliography on Anthropology and Japanese Studies, created by the Harvard-Yenching Library and the Harvard College Libraries

 

MINPAKU -- the National Museum of Ethnology (Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan)

Japanese language site

English language site

 

Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (Nihon Bunka Jinrui Gakkai)  

Japanese language site

English language site

 

Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA), section of the American Anthropological Association

 

Anthropologists of Japan in Japan (AJJ) – an organization of anthropologists working in Japan

 

Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) – an international network of anthropologists in Asia, Europe, and North America, focused on Japanese studies

 

Asian Anthropology, a journal that covers anthropological research throughout East Asia (published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

 

Asian Educational Media Services, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne – a website that indexes ethnographic videos on Japan and other Asian societies