Inge Daniels
Biographic Data
| ID | 588086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Inge Daniels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Inge |
| FAMILY NAME | Daniels |
| SIGNATURE | DANIELS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Even a piece of paper has two sides: Multi-scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards
Annually on 1 January, Japan's efficient postal system circulates 2.5 billion New Year cards to arrive simultaneously in every home in the country. Based on ethnographic fieldwork around Osaka, this article investigates the continued popularity of this exchange of paper forms in an age of smartphones and fast internet connections. Extending recent anthropological scholarship about digital data, I argue that these seemingly trivial cards have tran…
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Feeling at home in contemporary Japan: Space, atmosphere and intimacy
Beneficial Bonds: Luck and the Lived Experience of Relatedness in Contemporary Japan
This article explores the Japanese notion of luck as a relational mode of action that encapsulates a complex understanding about self, society, and cosmos. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in 30 urban homes in the Kansai region (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara) in 2003, I aim to demonstrate how, by engaging in a range of material practices, people create beneficial connections with spirits, people, and places to protect the home from malevolent inf…
The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home
In the West the Japanese house has reached iconic status in its architecture, decoration and style. Is this neat, carefully constructed version of Japanese life in fact a myth? Inge Daniels goes behind the doors of real Japanese homes to find out how highly private domestic lives are lived in Japan. The book examines every aspect of the home and daily life-from decoration, display, furniture and the tatami mat, to eating, sleeping, gift-giving, r…
The `Social Death' of Unused Gifts: Surplus and Value in Contemporary Japan
This article investigates the circulation and consumption of gifts in contemporary, urban Japan. It sets out to challenge key anthropological debates about gifting that, firstly, focus on the inalienable connection between the donor and the gift and, secondly, emphasize the symbolic potential and historical depth of things. The Japanese gifts under discussion, employed in the production and reproduction of the social, cosmic and economic order, a…
Japanese Homes Inside Out
In studies about the Euro-American home, the creation of domestic boundaries is commonly associated with the need for privacy grounded in the supposed opposition between “private” and “public,” “individual” and “society.” The large number of physical barriers such as gates, fences, balconies, and barred windows that screen contemporary Japanese dwellings from the outside world might, therefore, lead one to conclude that the Japanese home is of an…
Millennial monsters: Japanese toys and the global imagination - By Anne Allison
Scooping, raking, beckoning luck: Luck, agency and the interdependence of people and things in Japan
This article focuses on the circulation and consumption of Japanese commodities invested with an informal, domestic form of spirituality, translated as 'luck'. Tambiah has argued that the dissemination of spiritual power objectified in Thai Buddhist amulets reflects the 'differential power distribution' and 'social control' vested in an hierarchically ordered lay society. My Japanese case study suggests that commodification of religious forms ena…
Feeling at home in contemporary Japan: Space, atmosphere and intimacy
The `Social Death' of Unused Gifts: Surplus and Value in Contemporary Japan
This article investigates the circulation and consumption of gifts in contemporary, urban Japan. It sets out to challenge key anthropological debates about gifting that, firstly, focus on the inalienable connection between the donor and the gift and, secondly, emphasize the symbolic potential and historical depth of things. The Japanese gifts under discussion, employed in the production and reproduction of the social, cosmic and economic order, a…
Scooping, raking, beckoning luck: Luck, agency and the interdependence of people and things in Japan
This article focuses on the circulation and consumption of Japanese commodities invested with an informal, domestic form of spirituality, translated as 'luck'. Tambiah has argued that the dissemination of spiritual power objectified in Thai Buddhist amulets reflects the 'differential power distribution' and 'social control' vested in an hierarchically ordered lay society. My Japanese case study suggests that commodification of religious forms ena…
Japanese Homes Inside Out
In studies about the Euro-American home, the creation of domestic boundaries is commonly associated with the need for privacy grounded in the supposed opposition between “private” and “public,” “individual” and “society.” The large number of physical barriers such as gates, fences, balconies, and barred windows that screen contemporary Japanese dwellings from the outside world might, therefore, lead one to conclude that the Japanese home is of an…
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Even a piece of paper has two sides: Multi-scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards
Annually on 1 January, Japan's efficient postal system circulates 2.5 billion New Year cards to arrive simultaneously in every home in the country. Based on ethnographic fieldwork around Osaka, this article investigates the continued popularity of this exchange of paper forms in an age of smartphones and fast internet connections. Extending recent anthropological scholarship about digital data, I argue that these seemingly trivial cards have tran…
Millennial monsters: Japanese toys and the global imagination - By Anne Allison
Scooping, raking, beckoning luck: Luck, agency and the interdependence of people and things in Japan
This article focuses on the circulation and consumption of Japanese commodities invested with an informal, domestic form of spirituality, translated as 'luck'. Tambiah has argued that the dissemination of spiritual power objectified in Thai Buddhist amulets reflects the 'differential power distribution' and 'social control' vested in an hierarchically ordered lay society. My Japanese case study suggests that commodification of religious forms ena…
Millennial monsters: Japanese toys and the global imagination - By Anne Allison
Japanese Homes Inside Out
In studies about the Euro-American home, the creation of domestic boundaries is commonly associated with the need for privacy grounded in the supposed opposition between “private” and “public,” “individual” and “society.” The large number of physical barriers such as gates, fences, balconies, and barred windows that screen contemporary Japanese dwellings from the outside world might, therefore, lead one to conclude that the Japanese home is of an…
The `Social Death' of Unused Gifts: Surplus and Value in Contemporary Japan
This article investigates the circulation and consumption of gifts in contemporary, urban Japan. It sets out to challenge key anthropological debates about gifting that, firstly, focus on the inalienable connection between the donor and the gift and, secondly, emphasize the symbolic potential and historical depth of things. The Japanese gifts under discussion, employed in the production and reproduction of the social, cosmic and economic order, a…
The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home
In the West the Japanese house has reached iconic status in its architecture, decoration and style. Is this neat, carefully constructed version of Japanese life in fact a myth? Inge Daniels goes behind the doors of real Japanese homes to find out how highly private domestic lives are lived in Japan. The book examines every aspect of the home and daily life-from decoration, display, furniture and the tatami mat, to eating, sleeping, gift-giving, r…
Beneficial Bonds: Luck and the Lived Experience of Relatedness in Contemporary Japan
This article explores the Japanese notion of luck as a relational mode of action that encapsulates a complex understanding about self, society, and cosmos. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in 30 urban homes in the Kansai region (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara) in 2003, I aim to demonstrate how, by engaging in a range of material practices, people create beneficial connections with spirits, people, and places to protect the home from malevolent inf…
Feeling at home in contemporary Japan: Space, atmosphere and intimacy
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Even a piece of paper has two sides: Multi-scalar cosmologies of Japanese New Year cards
Annually on 1 January, Japan's efficient postal system circulates 2.5 billion New Year cards to arrive simultaneously in every home in the country. Based on ethnographic fieldwork around Osaka, this article investigates the continued popularity of this exchange of paper forms in an age of smartphones and fast internet connections. Extending recent anthropological scholarship about digital data, I argue that these seemingly trivial cards have tran…
Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Law (3 works)