Section Info: ANTHR-204-01

Course Title: Anthropology of Modern Japan

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

Description: Since the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have viewed Japan as the Orient's most exotic and mysterious recess, alternately enticing and frightening in its difference. Intense economic relations and cultural exchange between Japan and the U.S. have not dispelled the image of Japanese society and culture as fundamentally different from our own. In this course, we will strive for greater understanding of shared experiences as well as historical particularities. Issues covered may vary from one semester to another, but frequently focus on work, women, minorities, and popular culture. Films and anthropological works provide ethnographic examples of some key concepts.

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
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Lecture	Tuesday and Thursday	03:15PM - 04:30PM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

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: Waitlisted	Capacity: 24	Enrollment: 24	Available: 0	Waitlist: 5

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.