Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography: Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781138995079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 110 str.

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Opis

The authors of the articles in this book collectively provide insightful reasons as to why ethics has recently emerged as a theoretical and methodological subject as compelling as reflexivity was two decades ago.

Spis treści

1. Preface - Ethics and Anthropology: Reality Check Jennifer Robertson  2. Bones of Contention: Negotiating Anthropological Ethics within Fields of Ainu Refusal Ann-Elise Lewallen  3. Fraught Fieldsites: Studying Community Decline and Heritage Food Revival in Rural Japan Bridget Love  4. An Ethics for Working Up? Japanese Corporate Scandals and Rethinking Lessons about Fieldwork Elise Edwards  5. Impartial Observation and Partial Participation: Feminist Ethnography in Politically Charged Japan Tomomi Yamaguchi  6. Commentary - New Conversations, New Truths Sabine Frühstück

O autorze

Jennifer Robertson is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. The author of numerous articles, her books include, as editor, Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2004); and A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan (Blackwell, 2005). Robertson is the general editor of Colonialisms, a new book series from the University of California Press (www.ucpress.edu/books/COL.ser.html), and is presently completing a book on cultures of Japanese colonialism, eugenics, and humanoid robots.