Anthropology 254
PART TWO
Contemporary Japan As History and As Anthropology
9/20 F VIDEO: "Reinventing Japan"
Readings:
Gary D. Allinson, Japan's Postwar History, pp. 1-124 (Cornell University Press, 1997) DS889/A59X/1997 [reading notes]
Special Note: The first short essay (Assignment 1) is due today by 4:30 p.m.
9/23 M The historical architecture of postwar Japan: "affluence and identity"
[lecture outline] [audio transcript of lecture] [image gallery]
Readings:
Gary D. Allinson, Japan's Postwar History, pp. 125-194 [reading notes]
9/25 W The social formation of postwar society: "new middle class"
[lecture outline] [audio transcript of lecture] [image gallery]
Readings:
William W. Kelly, "Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Ideologies, Institutions, and Everyday Life," in Andrew Gordon (ed.), Postwar Japan as History, pp. 189-238 (University of California Press, 1993) DS889/P63/1992
Mainstream Consciousness in Japan, 1958-1997: a chart and a table of the annual surveys by the Prime Minister's Office
9/27 F VIDEO: "Living Through a Miracle"
Readings:
Elisabeth Bumiller, "Memories of War" and "I Forget I'm a Housewife," The Secrets of Mariko, pp. 31-90 [reading notes]