Anne Allison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 84164 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anne Allison |
| NOMBRES | Anne |
| APELLIDO | Allison |
| FIRMA | ALLISON A |
| AFILIACIONES | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8626-9550 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 229 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Mechanical grievability
Urban columbaria that store cremated remains in a warehouse and deliver them by automation to a grave (only) upon visitation are one of the newest innovations in mortuary deathscapes in Japan. Conserving the space needed for a cemetery and the time required for grave visitation, such delivery-style columbaria embody convenience. Yet they also provide a technological solution to the social precarity facing many Japanese today of being solo in deat…
Scorching the everyday
In this "hundreds" written in honor of Kathleen Stewart, I consider the scorching pain of lonely death in Japan that gets quelled, if only a bit, by the prayer offered by a Japanese worker in cleaning up the mess of the remains left behind
New life in Japan's 'endingness' business
The Japanese deathcare and Buddhist goods industry is a growing field, emerging out of radical shifts in the socio-economic conditions of everyday life: smaller households, an ageing population and more irregular employment/lifestyle patterns. Based on fieldwork, this article reports tectonic ruptures within Japan's household-based mortuary system and Buddhist practice. It takes readers to ENDEX, the premier convention for Japan's 'ending industr…
The (Un)social Smells of Death
In the face of a high aging population, decline in the rates of marriage and childbirth, and post-growth economic shifts, sociality is downsizing in Japan away from the family to more single lifestyles. The effects of this on the necro-landscape are examined here in terms of what happens to those who die all alone, untended by others ("lonely death") as well as new practices emerging to replace the family grave and family caregivers with an alter…
A Sociality of, and Beyond, ‘My-home’ in Post-corporate Japan
Automated graves
Once dependent on family to bury and memorialize the dead, caring for the deceased has become increasingly precarious in the wake of a decreasing and aging population, a trend towards single households, and downsizing of social relationality—including the temple parishioner system once key in mortuary rituals. In the new “ending” marketplace emerging today to help Japanese manage this precarity, automated graves offer customers a convenient buria…
Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Japanese Mothers and obentōs
Obentus are boxed lunches Japanese mothers make for their nursery school children. Following Japanese codes for food preparation-multiple courses that are aesthetically arranged-these lunches have a cultural order and meaning. Using the obentu as a school ritual and chore-it must be consumed in its entirety in the company of all the children-the nursery school also endows the obentu with ideological meanings. The child must eat the obentu; the mo…
Millennial Monsters
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining the crossover traffic between Japan and the United States, Millennial Monsters exp…
Not-Waiting to Die Badly
Japanese Mothers and Obentōs
Japanese nursery school children, going off to school for the first time, carry with them a boxed lunch prepared by their mothers at home. Food in an obento is an everyday practice of Japanese life. This chapter argues that the obento is invested with a gendered state ideology. It describes how food is coded as a cultural and aesthetic apparatus in Japan, and what authority the state holds over schools in Japanese society. The chapter examines th…
Greeting the Dead
At a moment when the population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are sixty-five or older, and reports of "lonely death" (of solitary people whose bodies are discovered days, or weeks, after death) are commonplace, the social ecology of existence is undergoing radical change in twenty-first-century Japan. While long-term bonds-to company, family, locale-were once the earmarks of its "…
Japan
Japan caught up with the West by initially importing scientific knowledge, adapting it to local circumstances, learning from trial and error, and then innovating better technologies. With the rise of knowledge-based economies and intensifying global competition, Japan is now struggling to maintain industrial competitiveness, particularly in strategic sectors such as electronics, which are drained of home-based manufacturing technologies because o…
Yokohama Street Life
Yokohama Street Life is an ethnography of a single person who lived on the edges of society and of the author’s research projects and publications for decades. Representing years of cumulative conversations, some conducted as systematic interviews and others gathered along the way—while walking the streets, wandering parks, seeking a day job or vending machine to buy sake—the book tells the life story of a Japanese day-laborer, Nishikawa Kimitsu,…
Afterword
Research Article| January 01 2016 Afterword: Reflections on Welfare from Postnuclear Fukushima Anne Allison Anne Allison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 175–181. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3424808 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anne Allison; Afterword: Reflections on Welfare from Postnuclear Fukushima. South…
Financing Open Access
From Village to Precarious Anthropology
Japan
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and the global recession following the US-driven fina…
Author’s response
Discounted Life
The essay takes on recent news stories of “missing elderly” (elderly whose deaths go unrecorded) and “lonely death” (bodies discovered days or weeks after someone has died all alone) to consider how life, death, and the bonds/debts of social relationality are getting recalibrated in postcrisis Japan. In what has become a trend toward singular living and solitary existence—sometimes called Japan's “relationless society” (muen shakai)—those without…
Editing the Times
Every editorship is faced with constraints and possibilities, ones arising from the world and times in which we live and others embedded in the practice and politics of the publishing medium we are tasked with stewarding.As editors of Cultural Anthropology between 2010 and 2014, we oversaw a historic moment of movement and flux, but also of uncertainty and constriction.It was a time of global precarity and financialization, of state pullback and …
Editors' Farewell
Precarious Japan
"In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but a…
Indebted intimacy
Sociality
Japanese Mothers and Obentōs
Ordinary Refugees
In the aftermath of the bursting of the Bubble economy in 1991, a turn to more flexible labor since the late 1980s, and the recent disaster (of earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor accident) of March 11th, the socioeconomic equilibrium in Japan has been shaken. In contrast to the post-war era of high economic growth when lifelong jobs and a middle-class lifestyle were the norm, today these staples of "good living" have become undermined or unobtain…
The Cool Brand, Affective Activism and Japanese Youth
Japanese youth goods have become globally popular over the past 15 years. Referred to as 'cool', their contribution to the national economy has been much hyped under the catchword Japan's 'GNC' (gross national cool). While this new national brand is indebted to youth - youth are the intended consumers for such products and sometimes the creators - young Japanese today are also chastised for not working hard, failing at school and work, and being …
Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Cyborg Violence
Portable monsters and commodity cuteness
(2003). Portable monsters and commodity cuteness: Poke ́mon as Japan's new global power. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 381-395
A Challenge to Hollywood? Japanese Character Goods Hit the US
New Editors' Greeting
Discounted Life
The essay takes on recent news stories of “missing elderly” (elderly whose deaths go unrecorded) and “lonely death” (bodies discovered days or weeks after someone has died all alone) to consider how life, death, and the bonds/debts of social relationality are getting recalibrated in postcrisis Japan. In what has become a trend toward singular living and solitary existence—sometimes called Japan's “relationless society” (muen shakai)—those without…
Memoirs of the Orient
Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha—the fictionalized memoirs of a geisha set in the Gion district of Kyoto between the 1930s and 1950s— became a bestseller in the United States immediately following publication in 1997. This essay examines two issues: what accounts for the mass popularity of Memoirs in the United States, and is either the text or the interest (in Japan/geisha) it spurs orientalist? Commonly enjoyed by fans as a “trip to an exoti…
Greeting the Dead
At a moment when the population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are sixty-five or older, and reports of "lonely death" (of solitary people whose bodies are discovered days, or weeks, after death) are commonplace, the social ecology of existence is undergoing radical change in twenty-first-century Japan. While long-term bonds-to company, family, locale-were once the earmarks of its "…
Indebted intimacy
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
A Sociality of, and beyond, 'My-home' in Post-corporate Japan
Emerging from the defeat of the Second World War, Japan shifted its national lens from empire building abroad to productivity and prosperity at home. Organized around a particular form of sociality and capitalist economics, citizens worked hard for 'myhomeism' - the attachments (of men at the workplace, women to the household, children to school) that fuelled fast-growth economics and rising consumerism. In the last two decades of economic declin…
Karaoke around the World
Afterword
Research Article| January 01 2016 Afterword: Reflections on Welfare from Postnuclear Fukushima Anne Allison Anne Allison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (1): 175–181. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3424808 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Anne Allison; Afterword: Reflections on Welfare from Postnuclear Fukushima. South…
Editing the Times
Every editorship is faced with constraints and possibilities, ones arising from the world and times in which we live and others embedded in the practice and politics of the publishing medium we are tasked with stewarding.As editors of Cultural Anthropology between 2010 and 2014, we oversaw a historic moment of movement and flux, but also of uncertainty and constriction.It was a time of global precarity and financialization, of state pullback and …
Linguistic Anthropology
Japanese Mothers and Obentōs
Nightwork
Transgressions of the Everyday
Research Article| August 01 1994 Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture Anne Allison Anne Allison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1994) 2 (3): 467–499. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-3-467 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Anne Allison; Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular C…
Wrappings of Japan
Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language. Jane M. Bachnik and Charles J. Quinn Jr. Women, Media and Consumption in Japan. Lise Skov and Brian Moeran
Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Japanese Images of Nature
Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. Pamela J. Asquith and Arne Kalland. eds. Richmond Surrey, UK: Curzon, 1997. 290 pp
Permitted and Prohibited DesiresMothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
This study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother–son incest, lunchboxes—or obentō—that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. The book brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Ba…
A Challenge to Hollywood? Japanese Character Goods Hit the US
Riding the Black Ship
In 1996 over 16 million people visited Tokyo Disneyland, making it the most popular of the many theme parks in Japan. Since it opened in 1983, Tokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture, particularly the company manual. By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management and visitors, Aviad Raz shows that it is much more an exa…
Karaoke around the World
Memoirs of the Orient
Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha—the fictionalized memoirs of a geisha set in the Gion district of Kyoto between the 1930s and 1950s— became a bestseller in the United States immediately following publication in 1997. This essay examines two issues: what accounts for the mass popularity of Memoirs in the United States, and is either the text or the interest (in Japan/geisha) it spurs orientalist? Commonly enjoyed by fans as a “trip to an exoti…
Cyborg Violence
Portable monsters and commodity cuteness
(2003). Portable monsters and commodity cuteness: Poke ́mon as Japan's new global power. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 381-395
Pikachu's Global Adventure
In the last years of the last millennium, a new consumer phenomenon developed in Japan and swept across the globe.Pokémon, which began life as a piece of software to be played on Nintendo's Game Boy (a hand-held gaming computer), quickly diversified into a comic book, a television show, a movie, trading cards, stickers, small toys, and ancillary products such as backpacks and T-shirts.Entering into production and licensing agreements with Japanes…
The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism
The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism Anne Allison (bio) In the Hollywood hit of 2003, Lost in Translation, Tokyo is the backdrop for a tale about modern-day angst and cultural dislocation. As shot by the film's director, Sofia Coppola, the screen fills with scene after scene of a searingly beautiful Tokyo: neon-lit Shinjuku, a pristine sushi bar, the quietude of a temple, a nightclub's jagged excesses. All of this is fi…
La culture populaire japonaise et l'imaginaire global
This paper considers the operation of ?soft power? in the currency of made-in-Japan youth goods as they achieve the popularity of a new fad in US pop culture. This craze of ?J-cool' is mainly a youth phenomenon which, less likely to be shared or understood by adults, trades in products for and about youth. Questioned here is what meaning or impact do these ?Japanese? goods have on or for ?American? kids. In other words, what is the construction o…
The Cool Brand, Affective Activism and Japanese Youth
Japanese youth goods have become globally popular over the past 15 years. Referred to as 'cool', their contribution to the national economy has been much hyped under the catchword Japan's 'GNC' (gross national cool). While this new national brand is indebted to youth - youth are the intended consumers for such products and sometimes the creators - young Japanese today are also chastised for not working hard, failing at school and work, and being …
Editors' Statement
New Editors' Greeting
Sociality
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
A Sociality of, and beyond, 'My-home' in Post-corporate Japan
Emerging from the defeat of the Second World War, Japan shifted its national lens from empire building abroad to productivity and prosperity at home. Organized around a particular form of sociality and capitalist economics, citizens worked hard for 'myhomeism' - the attachments (of men at the workplace, women to the household, children to school) that fuelled fast-growth economics and rising consumerism. In the last two decades of economic declin…
Ordinary Refugees
In the aftermath of the bursting of the Bubble economy in 1991, a turn to more flexible labor since the late 1980s, and the recent disaster (of earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor accident) of March 11th, the socioeconomic equilibrium in Japan has been shaken. In contrast to the post-war era of high economic growth when lifelong jobs and a middle-class lifestyle were the norm, today these staples of "good living" have become undermined or unobtain…
Precarious Japan
"In an era of irregular labor, nagging recession, nuclear contamination, and a shrinking population, Japan is facing precarious times. How the Japanese experience insecurity in their daily and social lives is the subject of Precarious Japan. Tacking between the structural conditions of socioeconomic life and the ways people are making do, or not, Anne Allison chronicles the loss of home affecting many Japanese, not only in the literal sense but a…
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