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 (R₀) is Small - An Estimation of
R₀ 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).