Anthropology 254

 

A. Instructor's Notes on Course Readings

 

Reading Notes for Ian Littlewood, The Idea of Japan

Reading Notes for Gary Allinson, Postwar Japan as History

Reading Notes for Elisabeth Bumiller, The Secrets of Mariko (and Tanaka family geneaology)

Reading Notes for Yuko Ogasawara, Office Ladies and Salaried Men

 

B. On-line Supplementary Clippings

These are folders of news stories and columns relevant to course topics drawn from various print media. The first five folders are organized to match and supplement the five units of the course. Access to these folders is restricted to Yale network and Yale VPN connections only.

Folder One: Culture and Character, Modernity and Heritage

Folder Two: Contemporary Japan as History and as Anthropology

Folder Three: Work, Family, and Schooling in New Middle Class Japan

Folder Four: Dimensions of Metropolitan Modernity

Folder Five: Into the Twenty-First Century

Folder Six: Miscellaneous