| Course Title: Anthropology of Modern Japan |
| Start Date: 01/24/2022 End Date: 05/09/2022 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2022 |
| Description: Certain keywords are crucial for understanding Japanese culture and society, words such as amae (dependence), uchi/soto (inside/outside), tatemae/honne (formality/true feeling), giri (obligation), hare/kegare (purity/pollution), seishin (spirit), and en (connection). This course will introduce seminal works that introduce some of these keywords, as well as more recent writing that examines the contexts such as the family, school, and workplace in which these cultural frameworks shape peoples' lives and are themselves reshaped. Also, we will attend to historical moments such as World War II, the postwar era of high-speed growth, and the long recession and era of low birth rate. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Joshua Roth | 413-538-2954 | jroth@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022 | Lecture | Monday and Wednesday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 216 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| EASIA0001 | EASIA: East Asian Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the East Asian Studies major. |
| ASIAN0001 | ASIAN: Asian Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Asian Studies minor. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 28 | Enrollment: 29 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Anthology of Japanese Literature Author: Keene, Donald Copyright: 1994 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0802150586 Publisher: Grove Press |
Required | 12.79 |
| Title: In Praise of Shadows Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro Copyright: 1977 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Leete's Island Books |
Required | 9.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |