Fun With Anthropology

[Mulboyne]

I'd like to have gone to this conference...

Yale: Reproduction in Modern Japan
"Let's Condoming": Unmarried Women's Strategies for Postponing Reproduction - Shana Fruehan
...While researchers have devoted much attention to why single men and women are delaying marriage and reproduction, they have paid less attention to how they are doing so. This paper examines narratives about heterosexual romantic relationships and contraceptive practices from a sample of unmarried young women living in Tokyo...

Tokyo Tower and the Imitation Problem - Steve Clark
...Tokyo Tower has now symbolically become a temple of kitsch, complete with a wax museum, trick art gallery, floors of plastic souvenirs, even appearing on a Pizzicato Five album cover. In a recent novel, bestselling author Ekuni Kaori calls Tokyo Tower in the rain "the saddest sight on earth." The tower's time has passed, its glory is over...

Lesbianism, Calligraphy, and Reproductive Interruption in Manji - Reginald Jackson
...At one point in particular, a certain mode of calligraphic writing -- typographically simulate -- concretizes Manji's performative portrayal of lesbian desire and suggests through its spectacle several non-linear alternatives to textual and sexual transmission...

Reproducing National Style in Japanese Hardcore Punk - Nathaniel Smith
...This paper will examine the reproduction and reinterpretation of thrash and "traditional" Japanese hardcore in the US and Japan, respectively, and implications bound in each musical style in political, nationalist, progressive, or conservative expression within the Japanese hardcore punk music scene.

[jingai]

Thanks for the link- I'll have to start going to these events

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005 7:00 PM
FALL 2005 JAPAN FILM SERIES
CINEMATIC STRANGERS: MARGINAL FIGURES IN JAPANESE FILM
A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan.
In conjunction with FILM 448a/JAPN 271a - Prints Courtesy of the Japan Foundation

Directed by Sai Yoichi (1993, 35mm, 100 min)
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
All Under the Moon (Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru)

[Charles]

Lesbianism, Calligraphy, and Reproductive Interruption in Manji - Reginald Jackson
...At one point in particular, a certain mode of calligraphic writing -- typographically simulate -- concretizes Manji's performative portrayal of lesbian desire and suggests through its spectacle several non-linear alternatives to textual and sexual transmission...

Kurt Vonnegut spoofed this sort of "scholarship" in one of his books, one character asserts that he can tell by the way a certain book's index is written that the author is a closeted homosexual.

[dimwit]

Geez, I guess social anthropology really is bankrupt for ideas. I can't imagine ANYONE paying to go to a conference like that. :P

[Charles]

Geez, I guess social anthropology really is bankrupt for ideas. I can't imagine ANYONE paying to go to a conference like that. :P

Nobody pays out of their own pocket. Universities give grants so their scholars can attend conferences, both as lecturers and visitors.

[Greji]

Geez, I guess social anthropology really is bankrupt for ideas. I can't imagine ANYONE paying to go to a conference like that. :P

What, they are giving away hints and explaining the sexual process of dealing with the Japanese female and you're not interested. Think of the all the tricks for un-fair advantages the healthy chauvenistic FG male can get out of this conference. Cash, check or money order, I'm in line (at my age, I need all the unfair advantages I can get and Gomi, shut up, don't even think about a response!)

[IkemenTommy]

Geez, I guess social anthropology really is bankrupt for ideas. I can't imagine ANYONE paying to go to a conference like that. :P

Oh trust me, YOU are. Where do you think your tax money go to?

[jingai]

Where do you think your tax money go to?

Hmm. Iraq, Exxon-Mobil, Halliburton for starters

Definitely not to Yale, where this conference was held, as they've got billions of their own money in the bank.