AJJ Spring 2011 Schedule

Workshops and Conferences

ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN IN JAPAN (AJJ)
2011 Annual Spring Workshop

Affiliation: Kanazawa University (International Cultural Resource Studies Center) Date: April 23-24, 2011

Location: Ishikawa Shiko Kinen Bunkakoryu Kaikan General Purpose Room 3
http://www.pref.ishikawajp/shiko-kinbun/

Fees:                   2,000 yen (1,000 for students) — Reception 4,000 yen (3,000 for students)

WORKSHOP THEME

“Communities of What?” — Place, Power, Knowledge, Practice, Japan…

A perennial concern of postmodern anthropology is to question the concepts that we find most central to our analyses of people’s lives, thoughts, and behaviors. As with the culture concept, the term “community” has been essential in our studies of human organization, but at the same time, its range of uses and definitions are becoming increasingly diverse and unwieldy. The aim of this year’s AJJ spring workshop is to critically examine the nature of “communities” that many of our members study. The four aspects that we will address are:

  1. What are the conceptual models and methodological tools for investigating communities provided by social science theory?
  2. How and why do people seek to enter into, maintain, and construct communities (or alternately leave and dissolve them)?
  3. What are the ideological frameworks of “community” that influence the actions and activities of members?
  4. How have recent social, economic, and technological changes influenced the shape of the communities we study, how we study them, and the very concept of community itself?

SPECIAL DISCUSSION SESSION Disaster Anthropology — Views on the Tohoku Disaster

In response to the unprecedented disaster that struck Japan on March 11, the Anthropology of Japan in Japan Spring Workshop and Kanazawa University will host a two-part discussion on disaster anthropology on April 23 and 24. While it is too early to objectively analyze the wide-ranging and ongoing impacts of this triple disaster, we hope to structure this discussion in respect to “lessons learned” from research on previous disasters. We are pleased to welcome Kimura Shuhei (Fuji Tokoha University), Ichinosawa Jumpei (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University), and Tanaka Junichi (Kanazawa University) who will present on their current and previous research to frame our discussion.

2011 AD SPRING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Saturday April 23

11:00-12:00 AJJ Executive Committee Meeting 12:00— Check-in Starts

12 :50-13:00        Opening Remarks

DISCUSSION 1                 Disaster Anthropology — Views on the Tohoku Disaster

13:00-13:50       Invited Speaker:

Junichi TANAKA (Kanazawa University)

SESSION 1.1                   Multicultural Communities — Gender

  1. 14:05-14:30 Yoko NARISADA (University of Edinburgh)

Making a Gender-equal Community under Law at a Public Women’s Organisation in Contemporary Okinawa

  1. 14:30-14:55          Erick LAURENT (Gifu Keizai University)
    Just “All Nuts and a Bunch of Wimps?” Masculinities in the Ryitkyfi s

BREAK

SESSION 1.2                      Multicultural Communities — Ethnicity

  1. 15:05-15:30 Michael SHACKLETON (Osaka Gakuin University)
    The Korean Community of Ikunoku, Osaka: A Life Full of Challenges
  2. 15:30-15:55 Yumiko TOKITA–TANABE (Osaka University)

Creation of Glocal Multicultural Communities in Japan: Expanding Relatedness among Indian Diaspora in Japan, People of their Home Places, and their Japanese Hosts

  1. 15:55-16:20 Reiko OGAWA (Kyushu University)
    Globalization of Communities for Care

BREAK

SESSION 2                        Tangible/Intangible Cultural Communities

  1. 16:35-17:00 loannis GAITANIDIS (White Rose East Asia Centre)

The Changing Meaning and Role of “Community” in Japanese Spiritual Therapy Circles

  1. 17:00-17:25 Kanako OHNO (Kanazawa University)

Making “Japanese Calligraphy:” Case Study of Calligraphy Society and Calligrapher’s Activities

  1. 17:25-17:50 Toyoichi NOZAWA and Chihiro NISHIJIMA (Kanazawa University)
    Diversifying Community, Converging Community: How Japanese Folk Drumming has Come to Represent the Sense of Place

17:50-18:10       Business Meeting

18:30-20:30      Reception

 

Sunday April 24

SESSION 3                       Rethinking Communities

  1. 10:00-10:25 Helmut MORSBACH (Temple University Japan)

References about Oneself Versus Concerns with the Community in Japanese “Future Autobiographies”

  1. 10:25-10:50 Natalie CLOSE (Australian National University)

Insiders as Outsiders, Outsiders as Insiders: Redefining and Reconstructing Identity in Community Festivals

BREAK

11.10:50-11:15       Megumi DOSHITA (Kanazawa Seiryo University)

Seeking New Communities since the Heisei Amalgamation: A Case Study of the Hakusanroku Region

12.11:15-11:40      Christian GOEHLERT (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)

The Gods of Childbirth as an Example for the Effect of Modernization on Rural Communities

LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 4                       Virtual Communities

  1. 13:10-13:35 Garance DUCROS (Nagoya University)

The Family Is No Longer What It Used to Be: The Impact of the Internet on Family Memory

  1. 13:35-14:00 Tomoko OTO (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Internet Hobby Communities: The Case Study of Fan Fiction Community for Girls

BREAK

DISCUSSION 2             Disaster Anthropology — Views on the Tohoku Disaster

14:15-16:30 Chair:

  1. John ERTL (Kanazawa University)

Invited Speakers:

Shuhei KIMURA (Fuji Tokoha University)

Jumpei ICHINOSAWA (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University)

Monday April 25

EXCURSION

10:00-17:00 Excursion to Nato Peninsula

Schedule TBA

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