| Research interests: Traditional Japanese Craftsmanship - in particular the making and marketing of Hikone Butsudan [ with Hiroko Yanase and Yuriko Nishiyama ] Photo Credits: Cover photo: On J.S Eades, Tom Gill and Harumi Befu (eds), Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2000 Cover photo: On John Clammer, Japan and Its Others, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press. 2001 Cover photo: On Shinji Yamashita, Joseph Bosco and J.S. Eades, the Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia, New York. Oxford: Berghahn Books.2004 Cover photo: On Hikone City Newsletter, March 1998, Hikone City Council, Shiga Ken, Japan. | | Publications: [with Jerry Eades, Nishiyama Yuriko and Yanase Hiroko] "Houses of Everlasting Bliss" in J.S Eades, Tom Gill and Harumi Befu (eds), Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press. 2000 [with Nishiyama Yuriko and Yanase Hiroko]. "Tradition and recession: Strategies for coping with economic change in a Japanese Craft Industry". In Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies. (Vol 10, 2002). [with Nishiyama Yuriko and Yanase Hiroko] "Buddhist Altar Arts: Tradition and Techniques" in Alistair Seton (ed), Daruma: Japanese Arts and Antiques Magazine Japan (Winter 2006). | |