Name: Jennifer Robertson

Title(s):

• Professor

Contact Information: 734.763.4682 , jennyrob@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CJS
• CMENAS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Anthropology

Education Background: Ph.D., Anthropology, Cornell University, 1985 M.A., Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, 1977 B.A., History of Art, Cornell University, 1975

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• East Asian Studies
• South Asian Studies
• Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Related Countries:

• Japan
• Sri Lanka
• Israel

Research/Teaching Specialization: Socio-cultural and historical anthropology; ethnography; sex/gender systems; mass/popular culture; feminist theory and women's studies; urban anthropology; theater and performance; colonialism and imperialism in Japan/East Asia; Sri Lanka; Israel.

Publications:

• A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. 2005.
• Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader. 2004.
• Odoru Teikokushugi: Takarazuka ni Miru kindai Nihon no Sei to Bunka no Shokuminchifū (Dancing Imperialism: The Colonization of Sex and Culture in Modern Japan as Framed by the Takarazuka Revue).
• Dehistoricizing History: The Ethical Dilemma of ‘East Asian Bioethics’. June 2005.
• Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose. 2002.
• The Human Tradition in Modern Japan.
• Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. 1998, 1999, 2000.
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• Reflexivity Redux: A Pithy Polemic on ‘Positionality’. 2002.
• Blood Talks: Eugenic Modernity and the Creation of New Japanese. 2002.

Name: Jennifer Robertson

Title(s):

• Professor
• Editor

Contact Information: 734.763.4682 , jennyrob@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CKS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Anthropology

Publications:

• A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. 2005.
• Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader. 2004.
• Odoru Teikokushugi: Takarazuka ni Miru kindai Nihon no Sei to Bunka no Shokuminchifū (Dancing Imperialism: The Colonization of Sex and Culture in Modern Japan as Framed by the Takarazuka Revue).
• Dehistoricizing History: The Ethical Dilemma of ‘East Asian Bioethics’. June 2005.
• Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose. 2002.
• The Human Tradition in Modern Japan.
• Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. 1998, 1999, 2000.
• .
• Reflexivity Redux: A Pithy Polemic on ‘Positionality’. 2002.
• Blood Talks: Eugenic Modernity and the Creation of New Japanese. 2002.