Left Brain Stuff
(the serious side)



Selected Publications:

As sole author:

2018
    Disease is Always Cultural: Medical Anthropology for Future Physicians at Akita University.
       Journal of Medical English Education (forthcoming).
2017
   Photography in the 1930s "Native" Ethnography of  Yoshida Saburo: The Eye of the Seikatsu-sha and the
      Legacy of Shibusawa Keizo's Attic Museum. Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology 18(1): 37-68. 
2016
    Large Classes and Great Expectations: Establishing and Evaluating an Integrated, Comprehensive English
       for Medical Purposes Program for First-Year Medical Students at Akita University. Journal of Medical
       English Education, 15(3): 154-161.
2016
    Gratuitous Ancestor worship of (and for) Robert J. Smith. Anthropology News, Society for East
       Asian Anthropology column (December).
2015
    And if Strangers Come to Supper (a novel). CreateSpace Publishing Platform, May 2.
2014
    Trial and Error, Study and Sweat: Yoshida Saburo's Smallholding in Northeastern Japan, 1935.
       Research in Economic Anthropology, 34: 235-266.
2014
    Yoshida Saburo: A Well-Connected Man of the 20th Century. Kyoto Journal, 80: 169-177.
2014
    Thinking Locally and Acting Globally in Regional Japan: Development with Respect to a Community's
       Base. Tohoku Anthropological Exchange (東北人類学論壇), 13: 1-15.
2012
    Tremors in the "Contact Zone" and Challenges to Anthropology Following the Great East Japan Earthquake:
        The View of a Foreign Resident Anthropologist. Asian Anthropology, 11: 39-53.
2012
    Ogata-mura: Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village. New York: Berghahn Books.
2012
   
「今人」との不思議な縁―吉田三郎と私 、 秋田魁新聞 、2012年10月(頁 10)
2011
   
English Textbook Preference among Japanese Medical Students Reconsidered: Textbook Content, Testing,
        and Student Performance as Factors. Journal of Medical English Education, 10(1): 20-28.

2010
    Simon Partner, The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865-1925. Book Review,
        Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology, (10): 77-83. (dated 2009, published 2010)
2009
    English Textbook Preference among Japanese Medical Students: Textbook Content and Student Motivation.
        Journal of Medical English Education, 8(2): 73-79.
2009
    Children as a Common-Pool Resource: Change and the Shrinking Kindergarten Market in a
       Japanese City. Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 29. Pp. 341-379.
2009
    Introduction: Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas.
       Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 29. Pp. 1-27.
2007 (Published Nov. 2006)
    Introduction.  Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 25. Pp. 1-23.
2005
    The Polder Museum of Ogata-mura: Community, Authenticity, and Sincerity in a Japanese Village.
       Asian Anthropology, 4: 29-58.
2003
    Fragmented Solidarity: Commercial Farming and Rice Marketing in an Experimental Japanese Village.
       In Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration (Research in Economic
       Anthropology, Volume 22), N. Dannhaeuser and C. Werner, eds.  Pp. 145-167.
2002
    A Practical Taxonomy of Benches on the Texas A&M University Campus.  Teaching Anthropology:
        The Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges Notes, 6(2): 33-37.
1999
    The Rural Revival Movement in Japan: A Comparison of Two Communities.  Bulletin of the National
        Association of Student Anthropologists, 11(1-2): 8-16.


As editor:

2017
    Anthropological Considerations of Production, Exchange, Vending and Tourism in Asia, Africa,
       Oceania and the Americas. (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 37). Emerald Group.
2016
    The Economics of Ecology, Exchange and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations.
       (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 36). Emerald.
2015
   Climate Change, Culture, and Economics: Anthropological Investigations (Research in Economic Anthropology,
      Vol. 35) Emerald.
2014
   Production, Consumption, Business and the Economy: Structural Ideals and Moral Realities (Research
      in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 34). Emerald.
2012
   Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America (Research in
       Economic Anthropology, Vol. 32). Emerald. (with Ty Matejowsky)
2011
   The Economics of Religion: Anthropological Approaches (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 31).
       Emerald. (with Lionel Obadia)
2010
    Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations (Research in Economic
       Anthropology, Vol. 30). Emerald/JAI.

2009
    Economic Development, Integration, and Morality in Asia and the Americas (Research in Economic
       Anthropology, Vol. 29). Emerald/JAI.
2009

    Pearson Custom Resources in Anthropology. Pearson Publishing. (http://www.pearsoncustom.com/)
        (Member, Editoral Board and Contributing Editor) 

2008
    Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption, and Corporate
        Social Responsibility (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 28).  Emerald/JAI.
        (with Geert De Neve, Peter Luetchford, and Jeffrey Pratt)
2008 (published Nov. 2007)
    The Economics of Health and Wellness: Anthropological Perspectives (Research in Economic
        Anthropology, Volume 26).  Elsevier/JAI.
2007 (published Nov. 2006)
    Choice in Economic Contexts: Ethnographic and Theoretical Enquiries (Research in Economic
       Anthropology, Volume 25). Elsevier/JAI.


As co-author:


2013
   Okamoto Taro, Nuclear Proliferation, Tradition, and the "Myth of Tomorrow." Kyoto Journal, 77.
        (with Akiko Takahashi)
2012
  
Understanding Intersections of Development, Neoliberalism, and Prehistoric Economies: An Overview
        of REA Volume 32. Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 32. (with Ty Matejowsky)

2011
   Economics and Religion, Economics in Religion, Economics of Religion: Reopening the Grounds
        for Anthropology? Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 31. (with Lionel Obadia)
2011
   Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and
        Socioeconomic Decline. Peter Matanle & Anthony S. Rausch, eds. New York: Cambria Press.
        (contributing author - Ch. 9)
2008
    The Number of Cumulative Infected Individuals in a Society is Independent of Population Size when
        the Basic Reproductive Number (
R) is Small - An Estimation of R of Hong Kong SARS 2003.
        Akita Journal of Medicine, 35(1):89-99 (T. Sato, D.C. Wood, M. Katahira and A. Nakamura).
2007
    Spontaneous Awakening from Nocturnal Sleep and Cardiac Autonomic Function in Preschool Children. 
        Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic & Clinical, 133:170-174 (M. Sampei, M. Dakeishi, D.C. Wood, T. Iwata,
        and K. Murata).

2006
    正規表現全文検索を利用した英文CORPUS利用教育と学習用具. Computer & Education, 20:18-24
        (in Japanese)  (T. Sato, M. Katahira, D.C. Wood, and A. Nakamura).

2006
    Impact of Total Sleep Duration on Blood Pressure in Preschool Children.  Biomedical Research, 27(3):111-115
        (M. Sanpei, M. Dakeishi, D.C. Wood, and K. Murata).
2006
    Cardiac Autonomic Hypofunction in Preschool Children with Short Nocturnal Sleep.  Tohoku Journal of
        Experimental Medicine, 208: 235-242 (M. Sanpei, K. Murata, M. Dakeishi, and D.C. Wood).


Presentations:

2016
    Repositioning the Anthropology of Prewar Japan: John Embree's Suye Mura and the "Native" Ethnology
       of Yoshida Saburō. East Asian Anthropological Association (EAAA) annual meeting, Hokkaidō University,
       Sapporo, Japan (Oct. 16).
2016. Anthropology, Japan, Tohoku: Writing from a Periphery…for a Center? Anthropology of Japan in
       Japan (AJJ), Tōhoku University, Sendai, Japan (April 24 - invited address).
2015
    Ogata-Mura: Anthropologically Interpreting a Synthetic Cultural Landscape in Northeastern Japan. East Asian
       Anthropological Association (EAAA) & Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE) joint annual
       meeting ("Multiple Landscapes of Anthropology"), Taipei, Taiwan (October 4).  
2014
    吉田三郎との出会い. 秋田県民俗学会研究大会. (秋田市・8月23日)
2014
    Photography in the 1930s "Native" Ethnology of Yoshida Saburo: Detailed Documentation, Subtle Remonstration,
       and the Legacy of Shibusawa Keizo's Attic Museum. IUAES Inter-Congress, Chiba, Japan (May 18).
2013
    Thinking Locally and Acting Globally in Regional Japan: Revitalization, Integration, and a Community’s Base. British
       Association for Japanese Studies conference, Akita University, Akita, Japan (Nov. 2).
2013
    日本の「田舎」で人類学的に 暮らすこと―吉田三郎と私の 「ボアズ的実験」 .  日本文化人類学会 第47回研究大会
        (東京・慶應義塾大学、6月9日).
2011
    "Crisis in the Pacific": Foreign Media and Governments, and Tremors in the "Contact Zone" Following the Great
        East Japan Earthquake. "Light and Shadow in East Asia: Health, Wealth, and 'Hungry Ghosts'" international symposium,
        National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (Sept. 10).
2009
    生活し研究する秋田の社会経済変化―「小子化」に直面する幼稚園. 東北大学文学部、東北人類学談話会
        (仙台、7月21日).
2009
    共通プール資 源としての子ども―秋田市における幼稚園市場の縮小と社会変化.  日本文化人類学会 第43回研究大会
         (大阪、5月30日).  (新型インフルエンザのため、未発表.)
2007
     大潟村の村づくりプロジェクト―社会的背景と結果(文化人類学の立場から). 招待講演.(秋田市雄和公民館、1月27日)

Unpublished Work:

> From Paper to Practice: Social Solidarity, Political Economy, and Change in a Planned Japanese Village.
        Ph.D. dissertation, Tokyo University Department of Cultural Anthropology, 2004.  (Advisor and
        Chair: Prof. Abito Ito)
> Ancestral Land, Inheritance and the Revitalization of Rural Japan: The Case of Ogata-mura.  M.A. thesis,
        Texas A&M University Department of Anthropology, 1999.  (Chair of Committee: Dr. Norbert
        Dannhauser)
> The Cultural Allocation of Space: A Pedagogical Exercise in Archaeology (an excursion into spatial
        analysis conducted on the Texas A&M University campus).



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