Nice, pleasant read, informative and simple. An example of anthropology that is dépassé, I doubt that anyone today would write a book about Japanese culture as a monolithic entity. Benedict could not conduct fieldwork in […]
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“Golden Kamuy” shedding light on Japan’s Indigenous people Ainu
The manga Golden Kamuy has it all: a treasure hunt, comedic relief, gripping action scenes, and beautiful art, and representation of Japan’s Indigenous people, Ainu. This critically acclaimed manga which takes place in the late Meiji Era […]
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
Some of these short, short stories felt shocking and absurd, either because of Kawabatan intention or because of the brutal reduction of the narrative–or both: Kawabata was an avant-garde writer back in the day, influenced […]
My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft
Bonnie Nardi uses Dewey’s activity theory (never heard of this before the ethnography) to analyze World of Warcraft. Dewey’s theory allows us to conceive of online games (if I am to understand correctly) as an […]
The Use and Abuse of History by Nietzsche
I was a little bit worried about this edition. In the Editor’s Introduction, the editor criticizes Nietzsche’s “gospel of the will to power” as something that has “unleashed bestiality in the name of the sanctity […]
Things Haruki Characters Would Do in Quarantine
The Month of March is the month of spaghetti (and so is every other month). You can speak to your cats, get a historical flashback of Japanese war-time crimes, or answer phone calls about strange […]
Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
This book by celebrated anthropologist Mary Douglas tackles one of the questions that I have a personal interest in: contagion and purity and danger. Lots of fertile ideas for understanding Korean ethno-nationalism, although its ideas […]
The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
A great practitioner’s manual to foresight through scenarios. Scenarios are stories that foresight practitioners construct to provide a context for decisions in the future. These are not mere extrapolations, but serve also as a vision […]
A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
Haraway is in conversation with a lot of feminist theory and proposes the figure of the cyborg to consider a new politics. Writing in the 1980s, the cyborg was merely an incipient fantasy, but Haraway’s […]
Straightjacket Society: An Insider’s Irreverent View of Bureaucratic Japan by Masao Miyamoto (1994)
Masao Miyamoto is a psychiatrist who grew up in Japan and was trained in the US. He returned to Japan after 11 years of living, teaching, and working in America to enter the Japanese bureaucracy, […]
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