Bond Forged under the Shadow of Pandemic
Parting with the Class of 2024 has been the hardest in my teaching career. As I woke up, the dark gray sky seemed on the verge of tears....
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sawa kurotani
Mar 94 min read
Homemaking on the go never really stops
It was a typical day in Oregon in mid-May: drizzles, clouds, five minutes of sunshine, drizzles again. I don’t know how many of us...
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sawa kurotani
Jul 12, 20234 min read
Anguished Teenager vs. Middle-Aged Bureaucrat:
Human-Sized Heros in Anime ULTRAMAN (2019) and Japan Sinks (2021) A persistent cold that waylaid me over the winter holiday break was a...
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sawa kurotani
Jul 12, 20234 min read
Tracing the Shadows of History:
Missing Photographs Speak Loudly of My Family Legacy. In her recently published book Shadow Traces, Elena Tajima Creef examines the...
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sawa kurotani
Jan 20, 20214 min read
Place of Empathy in Turbulent Political Reality
Arlie Hochschild's call to "scale the empathy wall" gives us a lot to think about in the current state of political discord in the United...
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sawa kurotani
Nov 25, 20204 min read
2020 Election is Over. Uncertainty is not.
For the long stretch of this fall, the weather was unusually warm even for the inland region of Southern California. Day after day the...
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sawa kurotani
Nov 25, 20204 min read
End of an Era - Part 3
My sister's self-inflicted death symbolizes the cost of "Bubble" economic boom My sister chose to end her in the late December, 2012 - so...
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sawa kurotani
Nov 25, 20204 min read
End of an Era - Part 2
"Okay, Boomer" - are we really sure about that? In one of the many holiday gatherings that happen around the university near the end of...
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sawa kurotani
Nov 25, 20204 min read
End of an Era - Part 1
My hometown is dying - literally - as memory of modernity withers away. It occurred to me all of a sudden. I was standing at the busy...
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sawa kurotani
Nov 25, 20204 min read
US Presidents - Fictional or Real
This has been an oddly quiet Presidential election year. No doubt much of it has to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. Politics feed on what...
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sawa kurotani
Oct 22, 20206 min read
Teaching Ethnography through Thick and Thin
Read the transcript of my podcast presented at the online conference, "Raising Our Voices," American Anthropological Association,...
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sawa kurotani
Jun 8, 20204 min read
Online, or Not Online
Colleges, professors struggle to find the best way to teach in uncertain times. Online or not online – that is the existential question...
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sawa kurotani
Jan 16, 20192 min read
"Writing Culture": A Personal History
James Clifford and George Marcus ushered in an epoch in cultural anthropology, when they published a co-edited volume Writing Culture in...
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