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Anthropology In Japan: A Model For Good Practice In A Global Arena? / Joy Hendry -- Against Hybridity: Culture As Historical Processes / Emiko Ohnuki-tierney -- West/japan Dichotomy In The Context Of Multiple Dichotomies / Akitoshi Shimizu -- Thoughts On The Relationship Between Anthropological Theory, Methods, And The Study Of Japanese Society / Roger Goodman -- When Soto Becomes Uchi: Some Thoughts On The Anthropology Of Japan / D.p. Martinez -- Postmodern Bodies, Material Difference, And Subjectivity / Margaret Lock -- Anthropological Fieldwork Reconsidered: With Japanese Folkloristics As A Mirror / Takami Kuwayama -- Joint Research Projects As A Tradition In Japanese Anthropology: A Focus On The 'civilization Studies' Of The Taniguchi Symposia / Hirochika Nakamaki -- The Discipline Of Context: On Ethnography Among The Japanese / Mitchell Sedgwick -- Japanese Inns (ryokan) And An Asian Atmosphere: Always East Of Somewhere / Sylvie Guichard-anguis -- Japanese Management And Japanese Miracles: The Global Sweep Of Japanese Economic And Religious Organisations / Wendy Smith -- 'de-orientalising' Rice?: The Role Of Chinese Intermediaries In Globalising Japanese Rice Cookers / Yoshiko Nakano -- Wandering Where?: Between Worlds Or In No-man's-land? / Peter Knecht -- 'the West In The Head': Identity Issues Of Latin Americans Living In Japan / Genaro Castro-vázquez -- Two Wests Meet Japan: How A Three-way Comparison Of Japan With Canada And The United States Shifts Culture Paradigms / Millie Creighton -- Eastern And Western Anthropologists Unite In Culture: A Personal Note / Heung Wah Wong -- Neither 'us' Nor 'them': Koreans Doing Anthropology In Japan / Okpyo Moon -- Re-orient-ing The Occident: How Young Japanese Travellers Are Using The East-west Dichotomy To Dismantle Regional Nationalisms / Bruce White -- Fear And Loathing Of Americans Doing Japan Anthropology / William W. Kelly -- When The East-west Dichotomy Is Destructive: Japanese Housewives In The Uk / Ruth Martin -- When West Met East And Made It West: Occidentalising The Ainu / Kirsten Refsing -- Japanese Collections In European Museums And Their Role Within The Field Of Japanese Studies / Josef Kreiner -- Dismantling The East-west Dichotomy: But What Happens With Religion? / Peter Ackermann -- Legacies Of East-west Fusions In Social Ecology Theory In Dismantling 'views Of The Japanese Nation' / Pamela J. Asquith -- Somewhere In Between: Towards An Interactive Anthropology In A World Anthropologies Project / Shinji Yamashita -- If Anthropology Is A Science, Then The East-west Dichotomy Is Irrelevant: Moving Towards A Global Anthropology / Gordon Mathews -- Writing For Common Ground: Rethinking Audience And Purpose In Japan Anthropology / Lynne Nakano -- Towards An Open Anthropology / Ron Carle -- Japanese Anthropological Scholarship: An Alternative Model? / Eyal Ben-ari. What Enlightenment Can Japan Anthropology Offer To Anthropology? / Heung Wah Wong. Edited By Joy Hendry And Heung Wah Wong. Series Numbered Retrospectively. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [218]-236) And Index.