Ellen Schattschneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 124896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Schattschneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Schattschneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHATTSCHNEIDER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Re-opening the Royal Road
This article explores intersecting experiences of landscapes of death in the Northern Marianas islands, in the shadow of brutal battles during World War II. My discussion builds upon prior work on how the human body registers personal and historical trauma. I emphasize that in East Asian and Pacific contexts, “the body” is often best understood as extending into the immediate spatial environs, to include topography, air and water flows, and flora…
Dwelling on my Falling
In August 2021, Yukiyo Kawano, a third generation Hiroshima hibakusha, was refused permission to install her sculptural evocation of the Nagasaki bombing, at the first commemoration of the atomic bombings within the National Park Service's Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Hanford, Washington, where plutonium for the "Fat Man" device was produced. The artist nonetheless raised the piece near the restricted Hanford zone. We consider th…
Film and Video
Film and Video
Film reviewed in this issue."Bethel: Community Schizophrenia in Northern Japan" 2007 (41 minutes) Director: Karen Nakamura
The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Bloodstained Doll
During 1936–45, women throughout the Japanese Empire made countless female figures and sent them in imonbukuro (comfort bags) to military personnel. Incorporating elements of amulets, Bodhisattva images, hitogata (ancient protective figures), and Western-style dolls, these masukotto (mascots) or imon ningyō (comfort dolls) took on shifting ideological and ritual functions. Initially, they helped domesticate colonial landscapes and bind convention…
Family resemblances
In some northern Tohoku institutions, a dedicated hanayomeningyŌ (bride doll), infused with the spirit of the bodhisattva JizŌ, functions as a spirit spouse for the unquiet soul of a child or youth who died before marriage. Although the figurine used is the opposite sex of the deceased, the doll's face is widely believed to come to resemble that of the dead person. These imputed cross-cutting family resemblances (in Wittgenstein's sense) emerge f…
Immortal Wishes
Immortal Wishes is a powerful ethnographic rendering of religious experiences of landscape, healing, and self-fashioning on a northern Japanese sacred mountain. Working at the intersection of anthropology, religion, and Japan studies, Ellen Schattschneider focuses on Akakura Mountain Shrine, a popular Shinto institution founded by a rural woman in the 1920s. For decades, local spirit mediums and worshipers, predominantly women, have undertaken ex…
Buy Me a Bride
In the northern Japanese memorial practice of "bride-doll marriage/" which emerged during World War II, the soul of a dead child is married to a spirit spouse embodied in a consecrated figurine. These marriages stimulate limited exchange relationships between the living and dead by building on old and new modes of gifting and circulation, including the prestation of Bodhisattva statues, affinity, transmigration, and the abstraction of social rela…
My Mother's Garden
Drawing on Winnicott's concept of transitional phenomena and Doi's approach to dependence, this article explores ascetic disciplinary practices undertaken by women at a northern Japanese mountain shrine. In dreams and visions, the mountain evokes infantile desires and anxieties of dependence and encompassment. Pilgrims may be kidnapped or possessed by sexually ambiguous demons or "trapped" in the mountain's feminine apertures, associated with wom…
The Labor of Mountains
Buy Me a Bride
In the northern Japanese memorial practice of "bride-doll marriage/" which emerged during World War II, the soul of a dead child is married to a spirit spouse embodied in a consecrated figurine. These marriages stimulate limited exchange relationships between the living and dead by building on old and new modes of gifting and circulation, including the prestation of Bodhisattva statues, affinity, transmigration, and the abstraction of social rela…
Family resemblances
In some northern Tohoku institutions, a dedicated hanayomeningyŌ (bride doll), infused with the spirit of the bodhisattva JizŌ, functions as a spirit spouse for the unquiet soul of a child or youth who died before marriage. Although the figurine used is the opposite sex of the deceased, the doll's face is widely believed to come to resemble that of the dead person. These imputed cross-cutting family resemblances (in Wittgenstein's sense) emerge f…
The Bloodstained Doll
During 1936–45, women throughout the Japanese Empire made countless female figures and sent them in imonbukuro (comfort bags) to military personnel. Incorporating elements of amulets, Bodhisattva images, hitogata (ancient protective figures), and Western-style dolls, these masukotto (mascots) or imon ningyō (comfort dolls) took on shifting ideological and ritual functions. Initially, they helped domesticate colonial landscapes and bind convention…
My Mother's Garden
Drawing on Winnicott's concept of transitional phenomena and Doi's approach to dependence, this article explores ascetic disciplinary practices undertaken by women at a northern Japanese mountain shrine. In dreams and visions, the mountain evokes infantile desires and anxieties of dependence and encompassment. Pilgrims may be kidnapped or possessed by sexually ambiguous demons or "trapped" in the mountain's feminine apertures, associated with wom…
The Labor of Mountains
The Labor of Mountains
My Mother's Garden
Drawing on Winnicott's concept of transitional phenomena and Doi's approach to dependence, this article explores ascetic disciplinary practices undertaken by women at a northern Japanese mountain shrine. In dreams and visions, the mountain evokes infantile desires and anxieties of dependence and encompassment. Pilgrims may be kidnapped or possessed by sexually ambiguous demons or "trapped" in the mountain's feminine apertures, associated with wom…
Buy Me a Bride
In the northern Japanese memorial practice of "bride-doll marriage/" which emerged during World War II, the soul of a dead child is married to a spirit spouse embodied in a consecrated figurine. These marriages stimulate limited exchange relationships between the living and dead by building on old and new modes of gifting and circulation, including the prestation of Bodhisattva statues, affinity, transmigration, and the abstraction of social rela…
Immortal Wishes
Immortal Wishes is a powerful ethnographic rendering of religious experiences of landscape, healing, and self-fashioning on a northern Japanese sacred mountain. Working at the intersection of anthropology, religion, and Japan studies, Ellen Schattschneider focuses on Akakura Mountain Shrine, a popular Shinto institution founded by a rural woman in the 1920s. For decades, local spirit mediums and worshipers, predominantly women, have undertaken ex…
Family resemblances
In some northern Tohoku institutions, a dedicated hanayomeningyŌ (bride doll), infused with the spirit of the bodhisattva JizŌ, functions as a spirit spouse for the unquiet soul of a child or youth who died before marriage. Although the figurine used is the opposite sex of the deceased, the doll's face is widely believed to come to resemble that of the dead person. These imputed cross-cutting family resemblances (in Wittgenstein's sense) emerge f…
The Bloodstained Doll
During 1936–45, women throughout the Japanese Empire made countless female figures and sent them in imonbukuro (comfort bags) to military personnel. Incorporating elements of amulets, Bodhisattva images, hitogata (ancient protective figures), and Western-style dolls, these masukotto (mascots) or imon ningyō (comfort dolls) took on shifting ideological and ritual functions. Initially, they helped domesticate colonial landscapes and bind convention…
The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Film and Video
Film reviewed in this issue."Bethel: Community Schizophrenia in Northern Japan" 2007 (41 minutes) Director: Karen Nakamura
Film and Video
Dwelling on my Falling
In August 2021, Yukiyo Kawano, a third generation Hiroshima hibakusha, was refused permission to install her sculptural evocation of the Nagasaki bombing, at the first commemoration of the atomic bombings within the National Park Service's Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Hanford, Washington, where plutonium for the "Fat Man" device was produced. The artist nonetheless raised the piece near the restricted Hanford zone. We consider th…
Re-opening the Royal Road
This article explores intersecting experiences of landscapes of death in the Northern Marianas islands, in the shadow of brutal battles during World War II. My discussion builds upon prior work on how the human body registers personal and historical trauma. I emphasize that in East Asian and Pacific contexts, “the body” is often best understood as extending into the immediate spatial environs, to include topography, air and water flows, and flora…
Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works)