East Asia Anthropologists MLへのMarta E. Szczygielさんの投稿；
Dear Colleagues,With apologies for cross-posting, I would like to bring your attention to the latest publication of Silva Iaponicarum, a Polish quarterly open access journal of Japanese studies. Fasc. 60/61 is a special issue titled “Transforming Taboos in Japan,” edited by myself. Although it was released in March, I believe this publication has not gained enough exposure, so I rely on this shameless self-promotion to draw your attention to the taboo issue.
“Transforming Taboos in Japan” brings together four papers highlighting that taboo themselves and their cultural significance in society – as well as systems of power and hegemony more broadly – are open to challenge and transformation. Authors, drawing on theories and methodologies from history, sociology, anthropology, and religious studies, examine how different actors have created, co-opted, and/or resisted cultural taboo throughout Japan’s past and present.
Marta E. Szczygiel, Maura Stephens-Chu
Introduction: Transforming Taboos: Challenging Hegemonic Prohibitions in Japan's Past and Present
Juljan Biontino
Tabooization of Korean Funerary Culture during Japanese Rule - The Case of Yun Ch'i-ho (1865-1945)
Ioannis Gaitanidis
"Spiritual Apostasy" in Contemporary Japan: Religion, Taboos, and The Ethics of Capitalism
Maura Stephens-Chu
From Sacred to Secret: Tracing Changes in Views of Menstruation in Japan
Marta E. Szczygiel
Understanding Relatively High Social Visibility of Excrement in Japan
You can find the whole volume below:
http://silvajp.home.amu.edu.pl/Silva%206061.pdf
Best regards,
Marta E. Szczygiel
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Tokyo University
Department of Sociology
