Browse Hierarchy ANTH6002: Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan

This module closely examines the historical and contemporary experiences of Japan's ethnic minorities and marginalized groups, which pose important problems for (our understanding of) a Japanese society that is commonly conceived as ethnically and culturally homogeneous. Detailed discussion of minorities and marginality in Japan will be related to broader concerns with ethnic and cultural identity and conflict, class structure, (trans)nationality, hybridity and diaspora as these are now discussed in anthropology. The module is appropriate both for Anthropology and for Japanese Studies students, and others with a general interest in minorities and marginality under conditions of modernity.