Anthropology of Japan: Past, Present, Future(s)

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Explore contemporary Japanese society through an anthropological lens. Examine the historical development of Japan Anthropology as a discipline. Analyze major themes and issues relevant to contemporary Japanese society, including but not limited to schooling, public health infrastructure, intimacy, globalization, diaspora, and precarity. Develop a toolkit to think critically about ethnography as method, a genre of writing, and lens. Discuss emerging themes and issues in a changing Japan, including but not limited to Afro-Japanese solidarities, digital activism, and digital sociality in pandemic times.