History and Holism: Making Sense of the Anthropology of Japan

Nana Okura Gagné is a cultural anthropologist at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. She formerly taught at the Department of Japanese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research explores how global capitalism impacts local ideologies and existing sociocultural relations, including gender relations, family relations, and socio-economic relations. She is the author of Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neoliberalism (2021, Cornell University Press), and she has published in American Ethnologist, Anthropological Theory, Ethnography, and Journal of Contemporary Asia.