Anne Allison, Robert O. Keohane Professor of Cultural Anthropology
| Office Location: | 230 Friedl Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 681-6257 |
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Teaching (Spring 2010): (typical courses)
- Ics 90bd.001, Intro to cultural anthro
- White 107, MW 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
- Ics 90bd.01d, Intro to cultural anthro
- Carr 106, Th 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
- Ics 90bd.02d, Intro to cultural anthro
- Carr 106, Th 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
- Ics 90bd.03d, Intro to cultural anthro
- Bell dorm west 113, Th 01:15 PM-02:05 PM
- Ics 90bd.04d, Intro to cultural anthro
- Carr 125, Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
- Ics 90bd.05d, Intro to cultural anthro
- Carr 125, F 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
- Ics 90bd.06d, Intro to cultural anthro
- Bivins 114, F 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
- Culanth 94d.001, Intro to cultural anthro
Synopsis
- White 107, MW 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
- Culanth 94d.01d, Intro to cultural anthro
Synopsis
- Carr 106, Th 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
- Culanth 94d.02d, Intro to cultural anthro
Synopsis
- Carr 106, Th 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
- Culanth 94d.03d, Intro to cultural anthro
Synopsis
- Bell dorm west 113, Th 01:15 PM-02:05 PM
- Culanth 94d.04d, Intro to cultural anthro
Synopsis
- Carr 125, Th 03:05 PM-03:55 PM
- Culanth 94d.05d, Intro to cultural anthro
Synopsis
- Carr 125, F 10:05 AM-10:55 AM
- Culanth 94d.06d, Intro to cultural anthro
Synopsis
- Bivins 114, F 11:40 AM-12:30 PM
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Chicago 1986
- M.A. University of Chicago 1979
- B.A. University of Illinois, Chicago Circle 1975
- Specialties:
- Globalization of Culture
- Mass Culture
- Asia
- Sexuality
- Popular Culture
- Political Economy
- Gender
- Culture Theory
- Marxism
Research Interests:
Current projects: Sociality of the present: Japanese kids, family, and affect in the 21st century.
Anne Allison (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1986) researches the ways in which desire seeps into, reconfirms, or reimagines socio-economic relations in various contexts in postwar Japan. Her first book, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (University of Chicago Press 1994) is a study of the Japanese corporate practice of entertaining white collar, male workers in the sexualized atmosphere of hostess clubs. Her second book, Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (Westview-HarperCollins 1996, re-released by University of California Press 2000) examines the intersection of motherhood, productivity, and mass-produced fantasies in contemporary Japan through essays on lunch-boxes, comics, censorship, and stories of mother-son incest. Her current research is on the recent popularization of Japanese children’s goods on the global marketplace and how its trends in cuteness, character merchandise, and high-tech play pals are remaking Japan’s place in today’s world of millennial capitalism. Her third book, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (University of California Press, 2006), looks at the global fad of "J-cool": Japanese toys, character merchandise, and animation/comic books. Questioning the timing of this fad -early 1990s to the present--and the scale of its popularity on the global marketplace, the book considers how these trends are remaking Japan's place in today's world of millennial capitalism.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- A. Allison. "American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies." Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics. Edited by Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein. (Accepted, July, 2010).
- A. Allison. ""Shakaisei no ima, kansei, kazoku, soshite nihon no kodomo" ("Sociality Today: Sentiment, Family, and Japanese Youth"." Kobougaku 4: Kibou no hajimari: ryuudookasuru sekaide: The Social Sciences of Hope, Volume 4: The Beginning of Hope: In a World of Flux. Edited by Todaishaken (Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University); Genda Yuji and Uno, Shigeki. Social Sciences of Hope: volume 4 vol. 4 (Summer, 2009): 129-149.
- A. Allison. ""Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture." Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization. Edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham. (Summer, 2009).
- A. Allison. "The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth." Theory, Culture & Society vol. 26 no. 3 (Spring, 2009).
- A. Allison. ""The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth"." Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States. Edited by Watanabe Yasushi and David McConnell. (Spring, 2009).