John W Traphagan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91834 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John W Traphagan |
| PRENOMES | John W |
| SOBRENOME | Traphagan |
| ASSINATURA | TRAPHAGAN J W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9427-494X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Introduction
This special issue addresses some of the many discourses related to religion and outer space with attention to the impacts that space exploration, space expansionism, and encounters with extraterrestrial life—both in the ancient past and the future—might have on religious systems. Contributions to this issue were developed from a Symposium on Space Exploration, Astrobiology, and the Future of Religion held in March 2022
Space Expansion and Politico-Religious Ideology
In this article, I focus on the question of how religion may evolve as a social institution that shapes behavior as colonization of the solar system unfolds. I argue here that space exploration in the American context has long been infused with elements of politico- religious ideology that sociologist Robert Bellah identifies with American civil religion and will suggest that the linkage between civil religion and space expansionism is likely to …
Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe has continued for decades without yielding any tangible results, as experts debate active versus passive approaches and the risks involved in sending signals of humans’ presence
Seti, Evolutionary Eschatology, and the Star Trek Imaginary
This article explores the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) as a practice of imagination expressed via an evolutionary eschatology where intelligent species are saved through the process of technological and social progress. I discuss a social imaginary associated with Star Trek, and other science fiction examples, which has significantly shaped the manner in which SETI scientists have thought about and justified their re…
A preliminary exploration of attitudes about Covid-19 among a group of older people in Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Religion, Science, and Space Exploration from a Non-Western Perspective
Religion and science are often set up as polar opposites in Western philosophical and religious discourse and seen as representing different epistemological perspectives that juxtapose rationality with faith. Space exploration is largely viewed as a scientific and engineering problem and, thus, has tended to set aside the issue of religion as it relates to human movement off-planet. However, as we have moved increasingly toward the idea of coloni…
Which humanity would space colonization save
The Great Colonization Debate
Entrepreneurs in rural Japan
This article explores return migration for the purpose of starting small businesses. I discuss the cases of three individuals who decided to leave their employment in urban areas to start businesses in a small town in Tōhoku. The key research question focuses on how gender influences the ability of people to start and maintain small business in rural areas and the extent to which expectations and assumptions associated with gender roles inhibits …
Knowledge Production in the Encounter with Alien Others
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination
Negotiating the afterlife
This article analyzes how Japanese handle problematic situations involving the care of the dead. Drawing upon narratives of hauntings, dream visitations, and split-grave internments, and other ethnographic data collected in northern Japan, we show the central importance of ongoing ritual attention and attentiveness to the needs of the dead as a means of maintaining proper emplacement of ancestral spirits. We argue that ongoing concerns about main…
A Fool's Errand
Intergenerational Ambivalence, Power, and Perceptions of Elder Suicide in Rural Japan
This article explores perceptions of elder suicide by older Japanese and contextualizes these perceptions within the theoretical framework of intergenerational ambivalence theory. The examples discussed show how people can use perceptions related to intergenerational relationships and changing social structures and values to create explanatory models for suicidal behavior. In the cases discussed here, high elder suicide rates are seen as a produc…
Imagined Families, Lived Families
The Oddness of Things
This article explores perceptions about social change as they relate to ideas about the family as a moral unit in rural Japan. I draw upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Ludwig Wittgenstein to develop a means for understanding discontinuities that arise amidst rapid social change. The article focuses on emotions of discomfort and surprise at the way rural Japan turned out for older people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries an…
Imagined families, lived families
"The Japanese family is at a crossroads of demographic change and altered cultural values. While the population of children has been shrinking and that of elders rising, attitudes about rights and responsibilities within the family have changed significantly. The realities of life in postmodern society have shaped both the imagined family of popular culture and the lived experience of Japanese family members. Imagined Families, Lived Families tak…
Hyunsook Yoon and Jon Hendricks, Handbook of Asian Aging
Constraint, Power, and Intergenerational Discontinuity in Japan
This article uses ethnographic data to explore intergenerational relationships as they are both constructed and contested within the confines of the discourse of filial piety in Japan. I argue that the current state of intergenerational relationships in Japan can neither be characterized in terms of an abandonment of traditional values of filial obligation nor in terms of a tacit acceptance of those values. Instead, contemporary Japanese experien…
Being a Good Rōjin
Introduction
Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village
Reviewed by: Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place John W. Traphagan (bio) Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place. By D. P. Martinez. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2004. viii, 254 pages. $25.00, paper. Martinez has provided scholars of Japan with an interesting book that presents useful ethnographic data on social structure and …
Curse of the Successor
Interpretations of Elder Suicide, Stress, and Dependency among Rural Japanese
This article explores ideas expressed by older, rural Japanese to explain suicide among their age peers. It also looks at how older Japanese conceptualize residing with children and grandchildren in terms of dependency and stress. While the multigeneration household often is represented by both young and old in Japan as an ideal living situation for the elderly, many elders also see coresidence as a significant source of stress due to conflicting…
Introduction to Research Forum
Interpretations of Elder Suicide, Stress, and Dependency among Rural Japanese
This article explores ideas expressed by older, rural Japanese to explain suicide among their age peers. It also looks at how older Japanese conceptualize residing with children and grandchildren in terms of dependency and stress. While the multigeneration household often is represented by both young and old in Japan as an ideal living situation for the elderly, many elders also see coresidence as a significant source of stress due to conflicting…
The Liminal Family
The central aim of this article is to explore, from the perspective of return migrants, the interplay of power and multiple obligations that shapes the experience of return migration from major metropolitan areas to rural areas in Japan. I suggest that for many, return migration means inhabiting a liminal social position between the neolocal and stem family ideologies that co-exist in Japan. I examine the narratives of two return migrants, with s…
Localizing senility
Contesting the Transition to Old Age in Japan
This article examines how Japanese contest transition from middle to age in a small town. In contesting transition to age, people resist entrance into a period that is generally associated with increasingly dependent and potentially burdensome relationships with others. Age-grading practices not only contribute to defining point in life that marks transition from middle age to age, they also symbolically represent dominant discourse on age, and t…
Fast Food and Intergenerational Commensality in Japan
The introduction of McDonald's and indigenous fast-food restaurants reflects changes in Japanese diet, eating behaviors, and social patterns. But these changes are not expression of urban anomie and social fragmentation often attributed to postmodern society and symbolically represented by ubiquity of these restaurants. Indeed, eating and social patterns within such establishments suggest that they provide opportunities for intergenerational comm…
Reproducing elder male power through ritual performance in Japan
Constraint, Power, and Intergenerational Discontinuity in Japan
This article uses ethnographic data to explore intergenerational relationships as they are both constructed and contested within the confines of the discourse of filial piety in Japan. I argue that the current state of intergenerational relationships in Japan can neither be characterized in terms of an abandonment of traditional values of filial obligation nor in terms of a tacit acceptance of those values. Instead, contemporary Japanese experien…
Which humanity would space colonization save
Negotiating the afterlife
This article analyzes how Japanese handle problematic situations involving the care of the dead. Drawing upon narratives of hauntings, dream visitations, and split-grave internments, and other ethnographic data collected in northern Japan, we show the central importance of ongoing ritual attention and attentiveness to the needs of the dead as a means of maintaining proper emplacement of ancestral spirits. We argue that ongoing concerns about main…
Introduction
The Great Colonization Debate
The Oddness of Things
This article explores perceptions about social change as they relate to ideas about the family as a moral unit in rural Japan. I draw upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Ludwig Wittgenstein to develop a means for understanding discontinuities that arise amidst rapid social change. The article focuses on emotions of discomfort and surprise at the way rural Japan turned out for older people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries an…
Older Women as Caregivers and Ancestral Protection in Rural Japan
Ancestral appearance in the dreams of older women is closely related to Japanese tendencies to center responsibilities for taking care of family health and well-being on women. Two points related to women and ancestor veneration are: 1) when confronted with the question of how people know they are protected by the ancestors, many informants turned to discussions of specific dream experiences in which ancestors appeared; and 2) although men report…
A preliminary exploration of attitudes about Covid-19 among a group of older people in Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Intergenerational Ambivalence, Power, and Perceptions of Elder Suicide in Rural Japan
This article explores perceptions of elder suicide by older Japanese and contextualizes these perceptions within the theoretical framework of intergenerational ambivalence theory. The examples discussed show how people can use perceptions related to intergenerational relationships and changing social structures and values to create explanatory models for suicidal behavior. In the cases discussed here, high elder suicide rates are seen as a produc…
Reasons for gateball participation among older Japanese
Senility as disintegrated person in Japan
Reasons for gateball participation among older Japanese
Localizing senility
Contesting the Transition to Old Age in Japan
This article examines how Japanese contest transition from middle to age in a small town. In contesting transition to age, people resist entrance into a period that is generally associated with increasingly dependent and potentially burdensome relationships with others. Age-grading practices not only contribute to defining point in life that marks transition from middle age to age, they also symbolically represent dominant discourse on age, and t…
Taming Oblivion
Examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. Taming Oblivion examines the cultural construction of senility in Japan and the moral implications of dependent behavior for older Japanese. While the biomedical construction of senility-as-pathology has become increasingly the norm in North America, in Japan a folk category of senility exists known as boke. Although sympto…
Reproducing elder male power through ritual performance in Japan
The Liminal Family
The central aim of this article is to explore, from the perspective of return migrants, the interplay of power and multiple obligations that shapes the experience of return migration from major metropolitan areas to rural areas in Japan. I suggest that for many, return migration means inhabiting a liminal social position between the neolocal and stem family ideologies that co-exist in Japan. I examine the narratives of two return migrants, with s…
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger. Susan J. Rasmussen. Dekalb: Northern Illinois Univerplaining sity Press, 1997. vii. 188 pp., notes, photocationers graphs, works cited, index
Senility as disintegrated person in Japan
Fast Food and Intergenerational Commensality in Japan
The introduction of McDonald's and indigenous fast-food restaurants reflects changes in Japanese diet, eating behaviors, and social patterns. But these changes are not expression of urban anomie and social fragmentation often attributed to postmodern society and symbolically represented by ubiquity of these restaurants. Indeed, eating and social patterns within such establishments suggest that they provide opportunities for intergenerational comm…
Introduction to Research Forum
Older Women as Caregivers and Ancestral Protection in Rural Japan
Ancestral appearance in the dreams of older women is closely related to Japanese tendencies to center responsibilities for taking care of family health and well-being on women. Two points related to women and ancestor veneration are: 1) when confronted with the question of how people know they are protected by the ancestors, many informants turned to discussions of specific dream experiences in which ancestors appeared; and 2) although men report…
Curse of the Successor
Interpretations of Elder Suicide, Stress, and Dependency among Rural Japanese
This article explores ideas expressed by older, rural Japanese to explain suicide among their age peers. It also looks at how older Japanese conceptualize residing with children and grandchildren in terms of dependency and stress. While the multigeneration household often is represented by both young and old in Japan as an ideal living situation for the elderly, many elders also see coresidence as a significant source of stress due to conflicting…
Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village
Reviewed by: Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place John W. Traphagan (bio) Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place. By D. P. Martinez. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2004. viii, 254 pages. $25.00, paper. Martinez has provided scholars of Japan with an interesting book that presents useful ethnographic data on social structure and …
Being a Good Rōjin
Introduction
Imagined families, lived families
"The Japanese family is at a crossroads of demographic change and altered cultural values. While the population of children has been shrinking and that of elders rising, attitudes about rights and responsibilities within the family have changed significantly. The realities of life in postmodern society have shaped both the imagined family of popular culture and the lived experience of Japanese family members. Imagined Families, Lived Families tak…
Hyunsook Yoon and Jon Hendricks, Handbook of Asian Aging
Constraint, Power, and Intergenerational Discontinuity in Japan
This article uses ethnographic data to explore intergenerational relationships as they are both constructed and contested within the confines of the discourse of filial piety in Japan. I argue that the current state of intergenerational relationships in Japan can neither be characterized in terms of an abandonment of traditional values of filial obligation nor in terms of a tacit acceptance of those values. Instead, contemporary Japanese experien…
Imagined Families, Lived Families
The Oddness of Things
This article explores perceptions about social change as they relate to ideas about the family as a moral unit in rural Japan. I draw upon the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Ludwig Wittgenstein to develop a means for understanding discontinuities that arise amidst rapid social change. The article focuses on emotions of discomfort and surprise at the way rural Japan turned out for older people in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries an…
Intergenerational Ambivalence, Power, and Perceptions of Elder Suicide in Rural Japan
This article explores perceptions of elder suicide by older Japanese and contextualizes these perceptions within the theoretical framework of intergenerational ambivalence theory. The examples discussed show how people can use perceptions related to intergenerational relationships and changing social structures and values to create explanatory models for suicidal behavior. In the cases discussed here, high elder suicide rates are seen as a produc…
A Fool's Errand
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination
Negotiating the afterlife
This article analyzes how Japanese handle problematic situations involving the care of the dead. Drawing upon narratives of hauntings, dream visitations, and split-grave internments, and other ethnographic data collected in northern Japan, we show the central importance of ongoing ritual attention and attentiveness to the needs of the dead as a means of maintaining proper emplacement of ancestral spirits. We argue that ongoing concerns about main…
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