A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan

Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Jennifer Robertson, raised in Japan, is a pacesetter in the study of Japan's society and culture from the seventeenth century to the present, with many seminal works to her credit (e.g. Robertson, 1994, 2001, 2004). In her Introduction: Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology (pp. 3‐16) to this fifth volume in the erudite and prestigious Blackwell Companions to Anthropology series, Robertson critically explores the “ancestry” of Japan anthropology in English from its genesis with Benedict (1946) and Embree (1939) in the 1930s onward. For some 30 years Japan was acknowledged in the discipline...