Tag: Anthropology of Japan

  • The Harumi Befu Prize Recipients

    2025 Hyogo University, April 4th–6th (joint JAWS/AJJ conference) Marta FANASCA (University of Bologna, Hosei University) Ritualizing Intimacy: Gender, Female Agency, and the Commodification of Desire in Contemporary Japan’s Pink Economy…

  • In Memoriam: Harumi Befu (1930–2022)

    We are bereft of two members in 2022, Harumi Befu and Mark Bookman, memorialized here thanks to Tom Gill: In Memoriam Harumi Befu 1930 – 2022 I first met Harumi…