Noriko Aso
Biographic Data
| ID | 378249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noriko Aso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noriko |
| FAMILY NAME | Aso |
| SIGNATURE | ASO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
L aura H ein . Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
In Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War, Laura Hein puts the city of Kamakura on the political, rather than tourist, map by arguing that its leftist intellectual elite and their postwar cultural institutions played a key role in introducing post-fascist democratic reform at both local and national levels. While her positive—with caveats—account might have been appreciated a few years ago primarily for deepe…
An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network by Michael Fisch
Reviewed by: An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network by Michael Fisch Noriko Aso (bio) An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network. By Michael Fisch. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018. xi, 302 pages. $82.50, cloth; $27.50, paper; $27.50, E-book. Michael Fisch employs a science and technology studies (STS) approach in this "technography" (ethnography of technology) of the Tokyo commuter train syst…
Samuel J. Redman. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
“There is nothing natural about systematically collecting and studying the dead,” writes Samuel J. Redman in Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, yet American museums, led by the Smithsonian, successfully fixed themselves in popular perception as a proper repository for human skulls and skeletons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (277). In clear and engaging prose, Redman explores a range of instit…
Katsuya Hirano. The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan is an ambitious work raising “questions that are designed to historicize and theorize the dialectical logic of the political in the sphere of cultural and social formation—what [Fredric] Jameson once called ‘perpetual cultural revolution’—in the context of early modern Japan” (p. 2 [emphasis in the original]). Katsuya Hirano's questions focus on what drove state…
Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan
In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western museums and expositions, these institutions were introduced by government officials hoping to spur industrialization and self-disciplined public behavior, and to cultivate an "imperial public" loyal to the emperor. Japan's network of museums expanded along with its colonies. By the mid-1930s, the Japanese…
Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism
Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Arts Festival
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2002
Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype , by David Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa
The virulent anti-Semitism that characterizes many of the books found in the “Jewish” corner in Japanese bookstores bewilders the casual browser. Instead of dismissing these texts as hallucinogenic ravings, however, David Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa offer a welcome historical analysis of the ways in which Jews have figured in Japanese ideology. As the authors emphasize, their work “is not about Jews or about the Jewish experiences in the Far Fa…
Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Arts Festival
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2002
Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype , by David Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa
The virulent anti-Semitism that characterizes many of the books found in the “Jewish” corner in Japanese bookstores bewilders the casual browser. Instead of dismissing these texts as hallucinogenic ravings, however, David Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa offer a welcome historical analysis of the ways in which Jews have figured in Japanese ideology. As the authors emphasize, their work “is not about Jews or about the Jewish experiences in the Far Fa…
Sumptuous Re-past: The 1964 Tokyo Olympics Arts Festival
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2002
Mediating the Masses: Yanagi Sōetsu and Fascism
Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan
In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western museums and expositions, these institutions were introduced by government officials hoping to spur industrialization and self-disciplined public behavior, and to cultivate an "imperial public" loyal to the emperor. Japan's network of museums expanded along with its colonies. By the mid-1930s, the Japanese…
Katsuya Hirano. The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan is an ambitious work raising “questions that are designed to historicize and theorize the dialectical logic of the political in the sphere of cultural and social formation—what [Fredric] Jameson once called ‘perpetual cultural revolution’—in the context of early modern Japan” (p. 2 [emphasis in the original]). Katsuya Hirano's questions focus on what drove state…
Samuel J. Redman. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
“There is nothing natural about systematically collecting and studying the dead,” writes Samuel J. Redman in Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, yet American museums, led by the Smithsonian, successfully fixed themselves in popular perception as a proper repository for human skulls and skeletons in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (277). In clear and engaging prose, Redman explores a range of instit…
An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network by Michael Fisch
Reviewed by: An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network by Michael Fisch Noriko Aso (bio) An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network. By Michael Fisch. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018. xi, 302 pages. $82.50, cloth; $27.50, paper; $27.50, E-book. Michael Fisch employs a science and technology studies (STS) approach in this "technography" (ethnography of technology) of the Tokyo commuter train syst…
L aura H ein . Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
In Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War, Laura Hein puts the city of Kamakura on the political, rather than tourist, map by arguing that its leftist intellectual elite and their postwar cultural institutions played a key role in introducing post-fascist democratic reform at both local and national levels. While her positive—with caveats—account might have been appreciated a few years ago primarily for deepe…
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