Successful and Sorry: How high income Japanese women construct themselves in marriage agency ads
Japan is increasingly characterised by late age at marriage and rising rates of singlehood....
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Successful and Sorry: How high income Japanese women construct themselves in marriage agency ads
Japan is increasingly characterised by late age at marriage and rising rates of singlehood....
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#041 - William Von Hippel - The Social Leap; How We Evolved From Tree Swinging to Human Being
William Von Hippel is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland and Author of The...
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Great Thinkers: Richard Fardon FBA on Mary Douglas FBA
'Purity and Danger', a book exploring the concepts of pollution and taboo in societies around the...
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The empty office: what we lose when we work from home – podcast
For decades, anthropologists have been telling us that it’s often the informal, unplanned...
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202 - Anthropologist and Psychic Medium Kenneth Joholske - Big Seance
Have you witnessed an armoire levitating and moving a distance of four feet before...
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Bringing Native American voices back to life
This month's podcast looks at recordings of songs and speech restored using technology from...
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I never said it would last forever: On Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Between 1989 and 2004, over 40 Japanese directors were introduced to major festivals and...
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Dowa Project Policies as unfinished human rights business – from Dotaishin to Ikengushin
My presentation will approach the issue of Dowa Project Policies (DPP) by trying to suggest...
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Japanese Language Education, Welfare and Motivation
Why does anyone voluntarily want to learn a foreign language? Really, why on earth would someone...
01:07:21
Following their acclaimed art and poetry exhibition, , shown in the Glass Tank this June and...
01:21:42
The Modernity of Didactic Literature for women in the Tokugawa Period
This talk examines the concept of “modernity” in the sociological sense, with reference to the...
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Following their defeat of Japan in the second World War the occupying American forces imposed...
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Women’s Memory of Hollywood Cinema in Post-war Japan
Following their defeat of Japan in the second World War the occupying American forces imposed...
01:03:44
The Creativity of Loss: Aging, ritual, and economies of care in contemporary Japan
This talk examines the ways in which Japanese men and women experience old age today. While the...
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The final IAH podcast of 2016 brings you the great Andrew Gurevich. Andrew is as good a social,...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Buddhist Perceptions of Western Imperialism and Why they Matter
Many Japanese Buddhist intellectuals and leaders, both lay and priestly, joined in the global...
01:31:23
The Insentient Companion Some Thoughts on Dolls, Robots and Significant Otherness
What does it mean to speak of dolls, robots and relationship simulation games as significant...
01:18:24
The smile of Buddha and the laughter of the Zen master
It is a widespread assumption that the comic spirit must not be associated too closely with the...
01:26:35
The Mouth of the Cave and the Giant Voice
It is a strange and bitter irony that the US naval bombardment which launched the Battle of...
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This paper seeks to examine several manifestations of futurity in contemporary Japan through...
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