The following texts will be required reading for the course and some of the exam questions will be based upon the readings assigned in them. The assignments can be found in the schedule of topics for the course. The texts do not exactly match the topics for classroom discussion so read them all from the beginning of the session.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Kingston, Jeff, Japan's Quiet Transistions,
Lie, John, Multiethnic Japan, Harvard
University Press, 2001.
Nelson, John, A Year in the Life of a Shinto
Shrine, University of Washington Press. 1996.
White, Merry Isaacs, Perfectly Japanese,
University of California Press,
2002.
There are additional articles that you will be expected to read. You can get them through a link on the schedule page or from articles page.
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