Yohko Tsuji
Biographic Data
| ID | 185367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yohko Tsuji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yohko |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsuji |
| SIGNATURE | TSUJI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Railway Time and Rubber Time: The paradox in the Japanese conception of time
This article addresses the co-existence of rigid punctuality and a rubber-like flexibility in the Japanese conception of time. It examines how the clock and social norms shape the everyday use of time related to railways, work, and appointments in Japan. It demonstrates that multiple discourses of time and the complicated interactions among them create temporal complexity in which the seeming contradiction between rigidity and flexibility is comp…
Mortuary Rituals in Japan: The Hegemony of Tradition and the Motivations of Individuals
Despite rapid social change, traditional mortuary rituals persist in contemporary Japan, and most Japanese ascribe their continuous compliance with tradition to cultural hegemony. In this article, I explore various other motivational forces behind their actions and illustrates how external pressures and individuals' internal motivations are intricately intertwined to generate human behavior. To do so, I consider the social and personal significan…
Time is not up: Temporal complexity of older Americans’ lives
Death policies in Japan: The state, the family, and the individual
The inscription on Stendhal's tombstone, 'He lived, wrote, and loved,' sums up his life in one short sentence. By contrast, the inscription on the typical Japanese tombstone reads 'Ancestral grave of X family' and contains no reference at all to the lives of the individuals buried in it. Today, most Japanese assume incorrectly that the practice is an age-old tradition, whereas in fact it became widespread only during the Meiji period (1868–1912) …
Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches
Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This 2002 book examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and death. The conclusion is that a great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a…
Society for Humanistic Anthropology: The Researcher and the Researched
Mortuary Rituals in Japan: The Hegemony of Tradition and the Motivations of Individuals
Despite rapid social change, traditional mortuary rituals persist in contemporary Japan, and most Japanese ascribe their continuous compliance with tradition to cultural hegemony. In this article, I explore various other motivational forces behind their actions and illustrates how external pressures and individuals' internal motivations are intricately intertwined to generate human behavior. To do so, I consider the social and personal significan…
Railway Time and Rubber Time: The paradox in the Japanese conception of time
This article addresses the co-existence of rigid punctuality and a rubber-like flexibility in the Japanese conception of time. It examines how the clock and social norms shape the everyday use of time related to railways, work, and appointments in Japan. It demonstrates that multiple discourses of time and the complicated interactions among them create temporal complexity in which the seeming contradiction between rigidity and flexibility is comp…
Time is not up: Temporal complexity of older Americans’ lives
Society for Humanistic Anthropology: The Researcher and the Researched
Death policies in Japan: The state, the family, and the individual
The inscription on Stendhal's tombstone, 'He lived, wrote, and loved,' sums up his life in one short sentence. By contrast, the inscription on the typical Japanese tombstone reads 'Ancestral grave of X family' and contains no reference at all to the lives of the individuals buried in it. Today, most Japanese assume incorrectly that the practice is an age-old tradition, whereas in fact it became widespread only during the Meiji period (1868–1912) …
Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches
Social policies reflect and construct important ideas in societies about the relationship between the state and the individual. This 2002 book examines this relationship in a number of hitherto unexplored areas in Japanese society including policies relating to fertility, peri-natal care, child care, child abuse, sexuality, care for the aged and death. The conclusion is that a great change has taken place in all these areas through the 1990s as a…
Time is not up: Temporal complexity of older Americans’ lives
Railway Time and Rubber Time: The paradox in the Japanese conception of time
This article addresses the co-existence of rigid punctuality and a rubber-like flexibility in the Japanese conception of time. It examines how the clock and social norms shape the everyday use of time related to railways, work, and appointments in Japan. It demonstrates that multiple discourses of time and the complicated interactions among them create temporal complexity in which the seeming contradiction between rigidity and flexibility is comp…
Mortuary Rituals in Japan: The Hegemony of Tradition and the Motivations of Individuals
Despite rapid social change, traditional mortuary rituals persist in contemporary Japan, and most Japanese ascribe their continuous compliance with tradition to cultural hegemony. In this article, I explore various other motivational forces behind their actions and illustrates how external pressures and individuals' internal motivations are intricately intertwined to generate human behavior. To do so, I consider the social and personal significan…
Sociology (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)