Books in the Japan Anthropology Workshop Series series

Examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan. This book investigates the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions come to be seen as forms of heritage which are ascribed public recognition and political significance.

Argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. This book shows how young people in Japan are thinking about their bodies and identities, their social relationships, and their employment and parenting, in generationally contextual ways.

Challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of ethnographic and historical case studies. This title demonstrates diversity and creativity of copying in the Japanese context through the translation of a series of otherwise loosely related ideas and concepts into objects, images, texts and practices of reproduction.

In a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, this exciting new book examines pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred.