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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

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134:. She is the author of fourteen single-authored books in English and in Japanese, in addition to numerous articles. Her books have been translated into many other languages, including Italian, Korean, Polish and Russian. Ohnuki-Tierney was appointed the Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture at the 186:
was her first book on the Japanese among whom she found "cultural germs" and a profusion of "urban magic." This helped her to realize the limitations of only studying a people and their way of life at a particular point in time. All her subsequent works have considered long periods of Japanese
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She has continued to work on the question of "aesthetic" (broadly defined), ubiquitous in wars of all types, from "tribal warfare" to conflicts between nation-states. This is done against the basic theoretical question of communicative opacity—how people fail to recognize the absence of
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Ohnuki-Tierney has been working on the question of power of symbols and its absence in political spaces since the mid-1980s. Her most recent works began as a study of symbolism of cherry blossoms and their viewing in relation to Japanese identities and led to an exploration of the
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history in order to understand "culture through time." Her focus has been on various symbols of identities of the Japanese, such as rice and the monkey, within broader socio-political contexts and in comparative perspective.
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as a major trope utilized to both encourage and aestheticize sacrifice for the country during its military period. This research culminated in two recent books,
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The Detroit Chinese: A Study of Socio-Cultural Changes in the Detroit Chinese Community from 1872 through 1963
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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
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in DC in 2009 and then in 2010 Fellow of Institut d’Études AvancĂ©es-Paris. She is a member of
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Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces | Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
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A native of Japan, born in Kobe 1934. Ohnuki-Tierney received a B.A. degree from
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The Monkey as Mirror: Symbolic Transformations in Japanese History and Ritual
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Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 30 April 2011 (video)
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Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
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Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan: An Anthropological View
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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin
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Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections on Japanese Student Soldiers
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Campus honors eight faculty with named professorships
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin
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Kobe
Anthropology
Symbolic anthropology
University of Wisconsin
Japanese
anthropologist
William F. Vilas
Anthropology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Library of Congress
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Tsuda College
Fulbright Scholarship
history of the Detroit Chinese community
Sakhalin Ainu
Hokkaido
cherry blossom symbol
Campus honors eight faculty with named professorships
Kiriyama Prize
Flowers That Kill: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces | Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
ISBN
9780804794107
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin
Select articles available for download
Excerpt from Kamikaze Diaries
Interviewed by Kalman Applbaum and Ingrid Jordt on 30 April 2011 (video)
Japanese culture
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