Nancy K Stalker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy K Stalker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy K |
| FAMILY NAME | Stalker |
| SIGNATURE | STALKER N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Japan
Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan’s elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the key historical themes, cultural trends, and religious developments throughout Japanese history. Focusing on everyday life and ordinary consumption, this is the first textbook of its kind to explor…
Devouring Japan
In recent years, Japan’s cuisine, or washoku, has been eclipsing that of France as the world’s most desirable food. UNESCO recognized washoku as an intangible cultural treasure in 2013, and Tokyo boasts more Michelin-starred restaurants than Paris and New York combined. Together with anime, pop music, fashion, and cute goods, cuisine is part of the “Cool Japan” brand that promotes the country as a new kind of cultural superpower. This book offers…
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, and sociology, each chapter presents the results of research based on some combination of original archival research, careful textual analy…
Ikebana as Industry
Aesthetics and cultural traditions occupy a central role in Japanese national identity to a degree unparalleled among the world’s wealthiest nations, yet few scholars have explored the economic and social dynamics of Japan’s twentieth-century cultural institutions. This article examines how the “three kingdoms” of ikebana—the Ikenobo, Ohara, and Sōgetsu schools—grew to massive postwar proportions, arguing that they engaged in the same strategies …
Gourmet Samurai
Japan's obsession with food TV is rooted in its gourmet boom, beginning in the 1980s, when the strong economy encouraged mass consumption of expensive foods and foreign cuisines. Gourmet TV dramas are often based on a popular manga comic and typically reproduce hegemonic gendered food norms, with professional male chefs embodying food authority and expertise often acting as protagonists. In recent years, however, several popular new TV series hav…
Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan
In 1959 Japan celebrated both the marriage of Crown Prince Akihito to commoner Shōda Michiko, dubbed the ‘people’s princess’, and the crowning of the first Japanese Miss Universe, Kojima Akiko. Jan
Strange Nuptials
Matthew Barney's 2005 film-cum-performance-piece, Drawing Restraint 9 (DR9), portrays a budding romance between two individuals he terms the “Occidental Guests,” played by Barney and his real-life partner, the singer Björk, aboard a Japanese whaling ship. In the film's climactic scene, the Guests, dressed in imaginatively construed Japanese wedding dress, engage in a bloody orgy of violence and cannibalism that reveals they are both part whale. I…
The Globalisation of Macrobiotics as Culinary Tourism and Culinary Nostalgia
This article examines the malleable identity of the macrobiotic diet, a largely vegetarian regime focused on brown rice and traditional Japanese foods, popularly known as a diet that could cure diseases, including cancer. It argues that the historical and geographical context of macrobiotics helped determine its appeal, i.e. initial interest in the West was driven by a sense of ‘culinary tourism’ while Japanese contemporary interest in macrobioti…
Prophet Motive
From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburô (1871-1948) transformed his mother-in-law's small, rural religious following into a massive movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he attracte…
Suicide, boycotts and embracing Tagore
In June 1924 popular protests over the US Immigration Exclusion Law erupted throughout Japan as individuals and groups mobilized to express their anger and resentment in a brief but potent wave of anti-Americanism. This paper traces several forms of popular protests and examines the reasons behind anti-American hysteria. I place the protests within the larger ‘dispute culture’ that arose under pre-war imperial democracy and identify how specific …
Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan
Ikebana as Industry
Aesthetics and cultural traditions occupy a central role in Japanese national identity to a degree unparalleled among the world’s wealthiest nations, yet few scholars have explored the economic and social dynamics of Japan’s twentieth-century cultural institutions. This article examines how the “three kingdoms” of ikebana—the Ikenobo, Ohara, and Sōgetsu schools—grew to massive postwar proportions, arguing that they engaged in the same strategies …
Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan
Suicide, boycotts and embracing Tagore
In June 1924 popular protests over the US Immigration Exclusion Law erupted throughout Japan as individuals and groups mobilized to express their anger and resentment in a brief but potent wave of anti-Americanism. This paper traces several forms of popular protests and examines the reasons behind anti-American hysteria. I place the protests within the larger ‘dispute culture’ that arose under pre-war imperial democracy and identify how specific …
Prophet Motive
From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburô (1871-1948) transformed his mother-in-law's small, rural religious following into a massive movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he attracte…
The Globalisation of Macrobiotics as Culinary Tourism and Culinary Nostalgia
This article examines the malleable identity of the macrobiotic diet, a largely vegetarian regime focused on brown rice and traditional Japanese foods, popularly known as a diet that could cure diseases, including cancer. It argues that the historical and geographical context of macrobiotics helped determine its appeal, i.e. initial interest in the West was driven by a sense of ‘culinary tourism’ while Japanese contemporary interest in macrobioti…
Strange Nuptials
Matthew Barney's 2005 film-cum-performance-piece, Drawing Restraint 9 (DR9), portrays a budding romance between two individuals he terms the “Occidental Guests,” played by Barney and his real-life partner, the singer Björk, aboard a Japanese whaling ship. In the film's climactic scene, the Guests, dressed in imaginatively construed Japanese wedding dress, engage in a bloody orgy of violence and cannibalism that reveals they are both part whale. I…
Gourmet Samurai
Japan's obsession with food TV is rooted in its gourmet boom, beginning in the 1980s, when the strong economy encouraged mass consumption of expensive foods and foreign cuisines. Gourmet TV dramas are often based on a popular manga comic and typically reproduce hegemonic gendered food norms, with professional male chefs embodying food authority and expertise often acting as protagonists. In recent years, however, several popular new TV series hav…
Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan
In 1959 Japan celebrated both the marriage of Crown Prince Akihito to commoner Shōda Michiko, dubbed the ‘people’s princess’, and the crowning of the first Japanese Miss Universe, Kojima Akiko. Jan
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, and sociology, each chapter presents the results of research based on some combination of original archival research, careful textual analy…
Ikebana as Industry
Aesthetics and cultural traditions occupy a central role in Japanese national identity to a degree unparalleled among the world’s wealthiest nations, yet few scholars have explored the economic and social dynamics of Japan’s twentieth-century cultural institutions. This article examines how the “three kingdoms” of ikebana—the Ikenobo, Ohara, and Sōgetsu schools—grew to massive postwar proportions, arguing that they engaged in the same strategies …
Japan
Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan’s elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the key historical themes, cultural trends, and religious developments throughout Japanese history. Focusing on everyday life and ordinary consumption, this is the first textbook of its kind to explor…
Devouring Japan
In recent years, Japan’s cuisine, or washoku, has been eclipsing that of France as the world’s most desirable food. UNESCO recognized washoku as an intangible cultural treasure in 2013, and Tokyo boasts more Michelin-starred restaurants than Paris and New York combined. Together with anime, pop music, fashion, and cute goods, cuisine is part of the “Cool Japan” brand that promotes the country as a new kind of cultural superpower. This book offers…
Japanese History and Culture (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Japan (4 works)