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| Anne Allison, Professor, Cultural Anthropology and Chair

| Office Location: | 230 Friedl Building | | Office Phone: | (919) 681-6257 | | Email Address: | 
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Teaching (Spring 2012):
- Culanth 158.01, Survival in precarious times
Synopsis
- Friedl bdg 204, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Education:
- PhD University of Chicago 1986
- MA University of Chicago 1979
- BA University of Illinois, Chicago Circle 1975
- Specialties:
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Mass Culture
Neoliberalism Asia Sexuality Popular Culture Political Economy Gender Globalization of Culture Marxism Urban Anthropology Transnationalism
- Research Interests:
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.
- Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- A. Allison. "The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth." Theory, Culture & Society 26:3 (Spring,
Spring, 2009). [PDF]
- A. Allison. "Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture." Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization (Summer,
Summer, 2009). [PDF]
- A. Allison. "Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence." Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination Summer, Summer, 2006: 163-191. [PDF] [abs]
- A. Allison. "Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus." Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan 2000: 81-104. [PDF]
- A. Allison. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. University of Chicago Press,
1994. [PDF]
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