John Clammer (Photo by FreeDigitalPhotos.net coward_lion) Social scientists are wont to announce “crises” in the societies that attract their scholarly attention. While it might be stretching the evidence a little too...
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Facing the World, Facing the Future: How Japan is Working to Represent Itself as a Nation at Sport Mega-Events
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna Introduction The 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan was the first to be staged on the world’s most populous continent, Asia, and it was the first to be co...
A Tohoku Utopia? Alternative Paths After March 11, 2011
Yuko Nishimura Five months and 15 days after the March 11 (3.11) Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Prime Minister Naoto Kan fulfilled his promise to resign from office; in a 15 minute speech, he...
Expatriate and ‘Local Hire’ Japanese in Hong Kong and the Struggle for the Soul of Japan
Ayako Sone and Gordon Mathews This article is based on research conducted by Ayako Sone in 2001-2002 on the cultural identities of Japanese in Hong Kong; but it places that research into a broader perspective. We discuss the...
Tying People into Circles: Japan’s Future in Light of its Communicative Strategies
Peter Ackermann Japan’s possible futures, I suggest in this paper, may to a large extent be directed by the everyday models and strategies that Japanese people use to interact with one another, and with the wider world in the...
Lost Melbourne: A Digital Ethnography of a Facebook Local History Group
Stefan Schutt, Marsha Berry and Lisa Cianci Victoria University, RMIT University Abstract Places and historical artefacts are being reimagined through social media on a daily and routine basis. Using an approach drawn from...
Opening the Lunchbox: What Distinction Looks Like from the Playground
PDF Vasquez, Carla R. 2013. Opening the Lunchbox: What Distinction Looks Like from the Playground. Global Ethnographic. Carla Rey Vasquez Victoria University of Wellington, M.A. Abstract Through an ethnographic investigation of...
Teaching Anthropology in Schools
PDF Hendry, J. 2013. Teaching Anthropology In Schools. Global Ethnographic. Joy Hendry Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes University MacGeorge Fellow, University of Melbourne In the autumn of 1910, anthropology was offered for the...
Intracultural and Intercultural Dynamics of Capoeira
PDF Mason, P. 2013. Intracultural & Intercultural Dynamics of Capoeira. Global Ethnographic. Paul H. Mason Department of Anthropology Macquarie University Abstract In the port-cities of Brazil during the nineteenth and...
Red Wave Art in Oceania
PDF Watanabe, F. 2013. Red Wave Art In Oceania. Global Ethnographic. writing service Fumi Watanabe Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science & at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan...