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Publications of Anne Allison    :recent first  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Allison, A. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. University of Chicago Press, 1994.
  2. Allison, A. Kiku to Pokemon: Guro-barukasuru nihon no bunkaryouku. Shinchousha, 2010. (This is the Japanese translation of my book, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination.)
  3. Allison, A. Precarious Japan. Duke University Press, October, 2013.
  4. Baldwin, F; Allison, A. Introduction: Japan’s possible futures. January, 2015. 1-10 pp. [doi]
  5. Allison, A. Permitted and prohibited desires: Mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan. Westview (HarperCollins), January, 2019. 1-225 pp. (Paperback edition, University of California Press, 2000.) [doi]  [abs]
  6. Allison, A. Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. January, 2023. 1-206 pp. [doi]  [abs]

Published Articles

  1. Allison, A. "A Male Gaze in Japanese Children’s Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual?."   ( 1993.).
  2. Allison, A. "Dominating Men: Male Dominance on Company Expense in a Tokyo Hostess Club." Genders  vol. 16 no. 16 ( 1993.): 1-16. [Gateway.cgi]
  3. Allison, A. "Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture." Positions  vol. 2 no. 3 ( 1995.): 67-499.
  4. Allison, A. "Producing Mothers: Production, Motherhood, and Schools in Japan." Re-imaging Japanese Women. Edited by Imamura, AE.  ( 1996.): 135-155.
  5. Allison, A. "Cutting the Fringes: Pubic Hair at the Margins of Japanese Obscenity Laws." Hair in Asian Cultures: Context and Change. Edited by Heitelbeitel, A; Miller, B.  ( 1997.): 195-218.
  6. Allison, A. "Cyborg Heroes Populate Popular Culture." Popular Culture in Japan and Outside. Edited by Slaymaker, D.  ( 1998.): 25-40.
  7. Allison, A. "About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By Dorinne Kondo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 277 pp. $17.95.." The Journal of Asian Studies  vol. 57 no. 3 (August, 1998.): 806-809. [doi]
  8. Allison, A. "Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives." American Anthropologist  vol. 101 no. 3 (September, 1999.): 665-666. [doi]  [abs]
  9. Allison, A. "Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus." Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan  ( 2000.): 81-104.
  10. Allison, A. "Review of Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing." Journal of Japanese Studies. Edited by Mitsui, T; Hosokawa, S.  vol. 26 no. 1 (Winter, 2000.): 169-173.
  11. Allison, A. "Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland." MONUMENTA NIPPONICA  vol. 55 no. 2 (Summer, 2000.): 315-317. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  12. Allison, A. "A Challenge to Hollywood? Japanese Character Goods Hit the US." Japanese Studies  vol. 20 no. 1 ( 2000.): 67-88. [doi]
  13. Allison, A; Mitsui, T; Hosokawa, S. "Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing." Journal of Japanese Studies  vol. 26 no. 1 ( 2000.): 169-169. [doi]
  14. Allison, A. "Ogetti e magia come valuta di scambio: Il Gioco Globale dei Pokemon." La Bambola e il Robottone. Edited by Gomarasca, A. Einaudi ( 2001.): 263-278.
  15. Allison, A. "Carne Furente: Bambole Guerriere Attraverso il Pacifico." La Bambola e il Robottone. Edited by Gomarasca, A. Einaudi ( 2001.): 145-178.
  16. Allison, A. "Memoirs of the orient." Journal of Japanese Studies  vol. 27 no. 2 (January, 2001.): 381-397. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  17. Allison, A. "Cyborg violence: Bursting borders and bodies with queer machines." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 16 no. 2 (January, 2001.): 237-265. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  18. Allison, A. "Playing with Power: Morphing Toys and Transforming Heroes in Kids’ Mass Culture." Power and the Self. Edited by Mageo, JM.  ( 2002.): 71-92.
  19. Allison, A. "Introduction to Special Issue on Children and Globalization." Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Edited by Allison, A; Grossberg, L.  vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003.).
  20. Allison, A. "Portable Monsters and Commodity Cuteness: Pokemon as Japan’s New Global Power." Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Edited by Allison, A; Grossberg, L.  vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003.).
  21. Allison, A. "Cuteness as Japan’s Millennial Product." Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon. Edited by Tobin, J.  ( 2004.): 34-49.
  22. Allison, A. "Review of Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore Bestor." Monumenta Nipponica  vol. 60 no. 2 (Summer, 2005.): 288-290.
  23. Allison, A. "Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence." Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination  (Summer, 2006.): 163-191.  [abs]
  24. Allison, A. "New-age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokemon in the Age of Millennial Capitalism." Japan after Japan. Edited by Yoda, T; Harootunian, H.  (Fall, 2006.).
  25. Allison, A. "The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism." Mechademia. Edited by Lunning, F. Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga vol. 1 no. 11-22 (Fall, 2006.).
  26. Allison, A. "Ajase Complex." Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture  (January, 2006.): 12.
  27. Allison, A. "obentō." Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture  (January, 2006.): 367-368.
  28. Allison, A. "Pokemon." Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture  (January, 2006.): 396-397.
  29. Allison, A. "Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (review)." The Journal of Japanese Studies  vol. 32 no. 1 (December, 2006.): 170-173. [doi]
  30. Allison, A. "Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture." Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth. Edited by Cole, J; Durham, DL.  (August, 2008.). [repository]
  31. Allison, A. "La culture populaire japonaise et l'imaginaire global." Critique Internationale  vol. 38 no. 1 (Winter, 2008.): 19-35. [doi]  [abs]
  32. Allison, A. "The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth." Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States. Edited by Yasushi, W; McConnell, D.  (Spring, 2009.).
  33. Allison, A. "The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth." Theory, Culture & Society  vol. 26 no. 3 (Spring, 2009.): 89-111. [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  34. Allison, A. "The cool brand, affective activism and Japanese youth." Theory, Culture and Society  vol. 26 no. 2-3 (March, 2009.): 89-111. [doi]  [abs]
  35. 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.). [PDF]
  36. 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 vol. 4 (Summer, 2009.): 129-149.
  37. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Untitled." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY  vol. 26 no. 4 ( 2011.): 511-513. [doi]
  38. Allison, A; Piot, C. "INTRODUCTION." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY  vol. 26 no. 2 ( 2011.): 157-157. [doi]
  39. Allison, A; Piot, C. "New Editors' Greeting." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 26 no. 1 (February, 2011.): 1-5. [doi]
  40. Allison, A. "A Sociality Of, and Beyond, ’My-Home’ in Post-Corporate Japan." Sociality, New Directions. Edited by Moore, H; Long, N.  ( 2012.).
  41. Allison, A. "HUMAN NO MORE Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology Afterword." HUMAN NO MORE: DIGITAL SUBJECTIVITIES, UNHUMAN SUBJECTS, AND THE END OF ANTHROPOLOGY  ( 2012.): 231-234. [doi]
  42. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Untitled." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY  vol. 27 no. 2 ( 2012.): 191-192. [doi]
  43. A. Allison. ""A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan"." Sociality, New Directions. Edited by Henrietta Moore and Nick Long. New Directions ( 2012.).
  44. A. Allison. ""A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan"." Cambridge Anthropology. Edited by Nick Long and Henrietta Moore.  vol. 30 no. 1 ( 2012.).
  45. Allison, A. "Japanese mothers and obentōs: The lunch-box as ideological state apparatus." Food and Culture: A Reader  (January, 2012.): 154-172. [doi]  [abs]
  46. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' notes." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 27 no. 1 (February, 2012.): 1-2. [doi]
  47. Allison, A. "Ordinary refugees: Social precarity and soul in 21st century Japan." Anthropological Quarterly  vol. 85 no. 2 (June, 2012.): 345-370. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  48. Allison, A. "American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies." Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics. Edited by Mankekar, P; Schein, L.  (July, 2013.).
  49. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' note." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 28 no. 3 (August, 2013.): 369-371. [doi]
  50. Alison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' introduction: Open access." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 29 no. 2 (January, 2014.): 201-202. [doi]
  51. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' note on "neoliberal futures"." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 29 no. 1 (February, 2014.): 3-7. [doi]
  52. Allison, A. "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 Sciences, TIOS; University, T; Yuji, G; Uno, S.  vol. 4 (February, 2014.): 129-149.
  53. Allison, A. ""Shinjidai no Fuetesshu, Monsuta-, Soshite Tomodachi: Mireniamu (Shinseki) no Pokemonshihonshugi"." Media and Popular Culture. Edited by Tsuchiyua, R; Shunya, Y.  (February, 2014.).
  54. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editors' farewell." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 29 no. 4 (November, 2014.): 599-601. [doi]
  55. Allison, A; Harootunian, H; Nelson, CT. "Crisis of the Everyday/Everyday Crisis: Across Time in Japan Introduction." BOUNDARY 2-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE  vol. 42 no. 3 ( 2015.): 19-21. [doi]
  56. Allison, A. "Precarity and hope: Social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan." Japan: The Precarious Future  (January, 2015.): 36-57.
  57. Allison, A. "Author’s response." Dialogues in Human Geography  vol. 5 no. 1 (March, 2015.): 124-127. [doi]
  58. Allison, A. "Sailor Moon: Japanese Superherofeosr global girls." . Edited by Craig, TJ.  (April, 2015.): 259-278.
  59. Allison, A; Harootunian, H; Nelson, CT. "Introduction."   vol. 42 (August, 2015.): 19-21. [doi]
  60. Allison, A. "Discounted life: Social time in relationless Japan." Boundary 2  vol. 42 no. 3 (August, 2015.): 129-141. [doi]
  61. Allison, A; Piot, C. "Editing the times." Cultural Anthropology  vol. 30 no. 4 (November, 2015.): 525-530. [doi]
  62. Allison, A. "LONELY DEATH Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality." LIVING AND DYING IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: A COMPENDIUM  ( 2016.): 662-674.
  63. Allison, A. "Afterword: Reflections on welfare from postnuclear Fukushima." South Atlantic Quarterly  vol. 115 no. 1 (January, 2016.): 175-181. [doi]
  64. Allison, A. "Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan." ETHNOGRAPHIES OF WAITING  ( 2018.): 181-202.
  65. ALLISON, A. "Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan. David B. Edwards. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 292 pp.." American Ethnologist  vol. 46 no. 2 (May, 2019.): 227-228. [doi]
  66. Allison, A. "Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan." International Journal of Cultural Studies  vol. 24 no. 4 (July, 2021.): 622-636. [doi]  [abs]
  67. Allison, A. "Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy." JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES  vol. 81 no. 3 ( 2022.): 594-596. [doi]
  68. Allison, A. "Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan." New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change, and Contestation  (January, 2023.): 145-161. [doi]  [abs]
  69. Allison, A; Gould, H. "New life in Japan's ‘endingness’ business." Anthropology Today  vol. 39 no. 3 (June, 2023.): 7-9. [doi]  [abs]
  70. Allison, A. "The (Un)social Smells of Death: Changing Tides in Contemporary Japan." Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus  vol. 21 no. 6 (June, 2023.).  [abs]
  71. Allison, A. "Scorching the everyday." Anthropology and Humanism  vol. 48 no. 2 (December, 2023.): 404. [doi]  [abs]

Book Reviews

  1. Arthur Golden. "Memoirs of a Geisha." Education About Asia  vol. 5 no. 2 (Fall, 2000.): 42-44.

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