AJJ 9th Annual Conference Programme
Venue: Meiji Gakuin University
Date: October 28-29, 2006
Provisional Schedule
Saturday
10:30-12
Executive meeting
12:00-13
Lunch
13:00-16
Panel 1: Gaining Access and Building Relationships in the Field
Chair: Javier Tablero Vallas, University of Granada
Lisa Kuly, Cornell University. Pregnancy and Childbirth in Japan: Towards a New Understanding of the World of the Foetus and Systems of Ritual Purity
Oda Akiko, University of Surrey. Gaining Access for Interviewing Older Japanese Couples
Philomena Keet, SOAS. Becoming Fashionable: Social Access and Sartorial Strategies
Eric Laurent, Gifu Keizai University. Japanese Specificities Regarding ‘Sexual Participation’ while doing Fieldwork in Sexual Anthropology
Ekaterina Korobtseva, University of Oxford. Becoming a Lone Mother in Japan: Immediate Family Members’ Reactions
Panel 2: Cross-Cultural Encounters
Chair: Jerry Eades, Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University
Robert Moorhead, University of California, Davis. Race, Class, and Culture in Immigrant Parent Interventions at a Japanese School: Letting Them Know We’re Not Going to Take It
Jane H. Yamashiro, University of Hawaii. From Saburos and Juros to Jake Shimabukuro: The Changing Image of Hawai’i’s Japanese Americans in Japan
Chan Yan Chuen, City University of Hong Kong. Ethnography in a Japanese Company in Hong Kong
Panel 3: The future is here: New Technology in Social Situations
Chair: Michael Shackleton, Osaka Gakuin University
Minerva Terrades, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Mobile Phone Mediated Interaction: ICT’s, Gender and Affectivity
Hirofumi Katsuno, University of Hawaii. Robot Dreams: the Formation of Self and Identity in Japanese Techno-culture
16:00-15:30
Break
16:30-18
Panel 4: Settings and Actors
Chair: Bill Bradley, Ryukoku University
John Mock, Akita International University. Concrete vs. Abstract “Fields”
Tom Hardy, Keio University. At play in the fields of the ward: doing research in an urban garden
Kazunori Oshima, independent scholar. Three viewpoints on Zaisanku
Panel 5: Tales of the Field
Chair: Mary Reisel, Rikkyo University and Temple University
* A round table in which tales of fieldwork will be told by Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University) about life in Yokohama’s day-laboring community
Rey Ventura (freelance writer) about his encounters with fellow Filipino migrants to Japan,
and by M.G. Sheftall (Shizuoka University) about unlikely friendships with WW2 kamikaze corps veterans. Brief tales from the floor are welcome.
18:00-18:30
Business Meeting
18:30-19:30
KEYNOTE
Keibo Oiwa, Meiji Gakuin University: Culture as Slowness: The Unbearable Sluggishness of Anthropology in a Time of Globalization
19:30-21:30
Reception
Sunday
10:30-12
Panel 6: Losing Oneself and Finding the Other, Onstage and Backstage: Ethnographic Studies of Japanese Performance
Chair and discussant: Jane Bachnik, International Christian University
Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia and Kobe College. Travels with My Garbage Can: Research in Taiko Identities In and Out of Japan
Jonah Salz、Ryukoku University. Pleasures and Pitfalls of Contemporary Actor Ethnography: Ethnography of the Shigeyama Family of Kyogen Actors in Kyoto
Kyle Cleveland, Temple University. Performing Blackness, ‘Keeping it Real’: Proxy Racial Identities in Japanese Youth Culture
Panel 7: Back to the Village
Chair: John Mock, Akita International University.
David S. Sprague and N. Iwasaki, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences. Land Use Change and the Usage Value of the Rural Kanto landscape
John Ertl, University of California Berkley. Confronting the Decline of the Village – as Administrative Unit and as Fieldsite
Lori Kiyama, Tokyo Institute of technology. Country Mouse, City Mouse
12:00-13
Lunch
13:00-15
Panel 8: On Being an Ethnographer: Challenges in the Field
Chair: Todd Holden, Tohoku University
Robert Stuart Yoder, Meiji Gakuin University. Ethnographies Needed in Japan
Rebecca Erwin Fukuzawa, Hosei University. Ethical Guidelines for Long-term Ethnographers in Japan
Roman Cybriwsky, Temple University. Trying Fieldwork in Roppongi
Paul Hansen, SOAS. Thinking Theory: Confessions of an Embodied Ethnographer
Melanie Perroud, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). The Outside Ethnographer under Scrutiny: Role-Change and Boomerang Questions in an Interview Setting
Padmini Tolat Balaram, National Museum of Ethnology. From Refusals to Acceptance and Welcome
Panel 9: Youth on Youth: New Ethnographies and New Ethnographers
Chair: David H. Slater, Sophia University
Yuko Tsuboi, Independent scholar. Pachi-Slot and Youth Futures
Melanie Lange, Sophia University. Beautified Manhood – New Requirements for Young Men
Rutsuko Nakajima, Sophia University. Symbolic Significance and Use of “Black Skin” by Tokyo “Gals”
Discussant: Claire Maree, Tsuda College.
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-17
Panel 8 (cont’d)
Finish