Course Outline ANTH 2230 Fall 2025

 

Course Number: ANTH*2230

 

Course Title: Regional Ethnography: Japanese Society

 

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

 

Instructor: Satsuki Kawano

 

Office: 603 Mackinnon Building

 

Office Hours: TBA

 

Lecture Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30PM - 3:50PM

 

Mode of Delivery: In person

 

Room: LA 204

 

E-mail: skawano@uoguelph.ca

 

COURSE OUTLINE:

 

This course presents diverse lifeways of contemporary Japanese people.  Using a variety of materials, including anthropological writings, history, films, and slides, this course explores topics such as family life, work settings, consumption, communication, gender relations, sexuality, education, social order, community life, socialization, life course and aging, death and dying, religion and ritual, social stratification, minority groups, disabilities, and global migration. 

 

Format:  Lecture

EVALUATION: In-person discussion leader, In-person mid-terms, Take-home final exam

TEXTBOOK:

 

(E-Book Available via the library’s e-reserve, ARES):

Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty (2013). Edited by Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long. Paperback edition. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

 

Course Packet prepared by the instructor (available via the library’s e-reserve, ARES).