R Kenji Tierney
Biographic Data
| ID | 401093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Kenji Tierney |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Kenji |
| FAMILY NAME | Tierney |
| SIGNATURE | TIERNEY R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Skidmore College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9514-5752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Consuming Sumo Wrestlers
Chanko stew—making, serving, and eating it—is at the core of Japanese sumo wrestlers’ social and professional lives. Sumo wrestlers are chanko stew. It is a critical means to make social connections with the outside world by inviting important guests to share their food. Eating with wrestlers is the authentic “sumo experience.” Chanko is also consumed outside of the wrestlers’ training houses in a myriad of ways. Ranging from a luxurious seafood …
Anthropology of Food
Food is an important indicator of social differentiation, which defines the boundaries between social groups, and social hierarchy, which entails class, status, and power inequality. Because food is a basic element of material culture and social life, it has occupied a central place in the discipline of anthropology from its earliest days. Anthropologists view food and foodways as tools with which to understand individual cultures and societies, …
Seeing Stars
Multiculturalism in the New Japan
Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regiona…
Multiculturalism in the new Japan
Introduction: Internal boundaries and models of multiculturalism in contemporary Japan Nelson Graburn and John Ertl Chapter 2. The great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and town-making towards multiculturalism Yasuko Takezawa Chapter 3. Globalization and the new meanings of the foreign executive in Japan Tomoko Hamada Chapter 4. (Re)constructing boundaries: International marriage migrants in Yamagata as agents of multiculturalism Chris Burgess Chapter 5…
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics . Laura Miller
Consuming Sumo Wrestlers
Chanko stew—making, serving, and eating it—is at the core of Japanese sumo wrestlers’ social and professional lives. Sumo wrestlers are chanko stew. It is a critical means to make social connections with the outside world by inviting important guests to share their food. Eating with wrestlers is the authentic “sumo experience.” Chanko is also consumed outside of the wrestlers’ training houses in a myriad of ways. Ranging from a luxurious seafood …
Single Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics . Laura Miller
Multiculturalism in the New Japan
Like other industrial nations, Japan is experiencing its own forms of, and problems with, internationalization and multiculturalism. This volume focuses on several aspects of this process and examines the immigrant minorities as well as their Japanese recipient communities. Multiculturalism is considered broadly, and includes topics often neglected in other works, such as: religious pluralism, domestic and international tourism, political regiona…
Multiculturalism in the new Japan
Introduction: Internal boundaries and models of multiculturalism in contemporary Japan Nelson Graburn and John Ertl Chapter 2. The great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake and town-making towards multiculturalism Yasuko Takezawa Chapter 3. Globalization and the new meanings of the foreign executive in Japan Tomoko Hamada Chapter 4. (Re)constructing boundaries: International marriage migrants in Yamagata as agents of multiculturalism Chris Burgess Chapter 5…
Anthropology of Food
Food is an important indicator of social differentiation, which defines the boundaries between social groups, and social hierarchy, which entails class, status, and power inequality. Because food is a basic element of material culture and social life, it has occupied a central place in the discipline of anthropology from its earliest days. Anthropologists view food and foodways as tools with which to understand individual cultures and societies, …
Seeing Stars
Consuming Sumo Wrestlers
Chanko stew—making, serving, and eating it—is at the core of Japanese sumo wrestlers’ social and professional lives. Sumo wrestlers are chanko stew. It is a critical means to make social connections with the outside world by inviting important guests to share their food. Eating with wrestlers is the authentic “sumo experience.” Chanko is also consumed outside of the wrestlers’ training houses in a myriad of ways. Ranging from a luxurious seafood …
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Biology (2 works)