Anthropology 254 Lecture Outlines
Note: This page provides links to outlines of all lectures. For more complete links to each class, including readings and image galleries, please use the course unit boxes on the left-hand panel of the home page.
For fall term, 2002, I am experimenting with adding video clips from the documentaries we screen (in QuickTime format) and audio transcripts of many of the lectures (in mp3 format). Please see the course unit boxes for these links. Note that you will need to have these plug-ins installed in order to open the video and audio files.
Lecture
Outline 1.1
"Zen aesthetes" & "economic animals": Beyond the Seven
Deadly Clichés
Lecture
Outline 1.2
The Concept of Culture and the Study of Japan: Four Paradigms
Lecture
Outline 1.3
Modernity and its Indigenizations: Japan
Lecture
Outline 1.4
Language: "Japan's modern myth"?
Lecture
Outline 1.5
Place and Time: Geographical and Historical Themes
Lecture
Outline 1.6
The Politics of Heritage: Samurai as Social Fact and Cultural Fiction
Lecture
Outline 2.1
Contemporary Japan as History and as Anthropology
Lecure
Outline 3.1
Work and Workplaces in a New Middle Class Society
Lecture
Outline 3.2
Education for a Meritocracy: Quality and Equality
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Outline 3.3
Family Life in New Middle Class Japan
Lecture
Outline 3.4
Women's Work and Gender Roles in Postwar Japan: The
Power of and Resistance to the 4-D Female Image
Lecture
Outline 4.1
Faith in a Rational World: Ways of Healing in Contemporary Japan
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Outline 4.2
Multi-ethnic Japan: Beyond "the modern myth of homogeneity"
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Outline 4.3
Pleasure and Profit: Mass Culture and Modernity
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Outline 4.4
Randy Bass, the Hanshin Tigers, and the Complexities of Professional Baseball
Lecture
Outline 5.1
Summing Up: Beyond
New Middle Class Japan