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Research paper thumbnail of Living at the Extreme: A Case of Sex Workers in Mumbai, India.

As sexual motivation can be broadly differentiated into pleasure and reproduction, prostitution a... more As sexual motivation can be broadly differentiated into pleasure and reproduction, prostitution and marriage have been institutionalized accordingly. Indian women involved in prostitution due to impoverishment resulting from the breakdown of their marriages need to support not only themselves, but also children and elderly parents back in their home villages. In these circumstances, these women are stricken by a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. In this paper, I consider these emotions as constituting an extreme in the existential dimension in their own right. This paper refers to devadasi women in Mumbai's biggest red light area.

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Research paper thumbnail of Sacrifice Lost and Found ―Colonial India and Postcolonial Lanka

Zinbun, 2000

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Research paper thumbnail of カーリー女神の変貌 ―スリランカ・タミル漁村における村落祭祀の研究―

国立民族学博物館研究報告, Jan 27, 1989

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Research paper thumbnail of Japanese Scholarship on India

Social Scientist, 2000

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Research paper thumbnail of Crossing over Barbed Wire Entanglements of U.S. Military Bases (Civil Military Entanglements 2019)

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Research paper thumbnail of Grids, Waves, and Nationalism: Some Thoughts from Listening to "Good Vibrations" in a Big Morgue

This paper is based on my public lecture delivered at the 51st General Meeting of the Japanese As... more This paper is based on my public lecture delivered at the 51st General Meeting of the Japanese Association of Cultural Anthropology at Rokko Campus of Kobe University on 29 May, 2017. It aims to consider two different modes of sociality, grid and wave, in relation to nationalism. Most cases of "grid mode" are found in the disciplinary system of the state. By wave, I mean social relationships in a face-to-face situation. It is primarily related to orality as against literacy. Nationalism is a movement to interpellate people into a nation. A modern state needs not only an archival control over its subjects, but a story to mobilize them to fight for the state. The final part starts with two novels by Shun Medoruma of Okinawa origin. Then, I bring up Christian Boltanski's art works, which tell a possibility of wave mode against a gigantic and collective phallic monument, where personal names are not visible.

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Research paper thumbnail of Agency and Seduction against a Girardian Model of Society

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Research paper thumbnail of For a Sociology of Hinduism

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Research paper thumbnail of Sacrifice Lost and Found

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Research paper thumbnail of Towarads an Anthropology of Agency

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Research paper thumbnail of Morality and Instrumentality A Practical Approach to Theorizing the Other

Others The Evolution of Human Society

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Research paper thumbnail of Nature and the Body in Male Sex Stimulants

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Research paper thumbnail of Widow Burning in India: Culturally Situated Violence and a Possibility of Intercultural Ethics

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Research paper thumbnail of Hinduism in Singapore: Ethno-nationalization in Process

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Research paper thumbnail of Hindu Priest under Secular Government

The State in India Past and Present

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Research paper thumbnail of Religion in Everyday Life

Veena Das (ed.) The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Anthropology. Oxford University Press. pp.861-883, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Writing on Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia

Masakazu Tanaka and Musashi Tachikawa eds., Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. SES 50:3-17, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of The Navarātri Festival in Chidambaram, South India

Masakazu Tanaka and Musashi Tachikawa eds., Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. SES 50:117-135

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Research paper thumbnail of Hinoki (Japanese cypress) Lives Twice: The World of Tsunekazu Nishioka, a Temple Carpenter

Views of the Environment in Asian Countries: Their Relationship to Sustainable Development (Asian-Pacific Center/The United Nations University). pp.9-18., 1997

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Research paper thumbnail of Why are Brahman Temple Priests Highest in the Caste Hierarchy?

Nagano Y. and Y. Ikari (eds.) From Vedic Altar to Village to Village Shrine. SES 36: 85-124, 1993

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Research paper thumbnail of Living at the Extreme: A Case of Sex Workers in Mumbai, India.

As sexual motivation can be broadly differentiated into pleasure and reproduction, prostitution a... more As sexual motivation can be broadly differentiated into pleasure and reproduction, prostitution and marriage have been institutionalized accordingly. Indian women involved in prostitution due to impoverishment resulting from the breakdown of their marriages need to support not only themselves, but also children and elderly parents back in their home villages. In these circumstances, these women are stricken by a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. In this paper, I consider these emotions as constituting an extreme in the existential dimension in their own right. This paper refers to devadasi women in Mumbai's biggest red light area.

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Research paper thumbnail of Sacrifice Lost and Found ―Colonial India and Postcolonial Lanka

Zinbun, 2000

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Research paper thumbnail of カーリー女神の変貌 ―スリランカ・タミル漁村における村落祭祀の研究―

国立民族学博物館研究報告, Jan 27, 1989

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Research paper thumbnail of Japanese Scholarship on India

Social Scientist, 2000

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Research paper thumbnail of Crossing over Barbed Wire Entanglements of U.S. Military Bases (Civil Military Entanglements 2019)

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Research paper thumbnail of Grids, Waves, and Nationalism: Some Thoughts from Listening to "Good Vibrations" in a Big Morgue

This paper is based on my public lecture delivered at the 51st General Meeting of the Japanese As... more This paper is based on my public lecture delivered at the 51st General Meeting of the Japanese Association of Cultural Anthropology at Rokko Campus of Kobe University on 29 May, 2017. It aims to consider two different modes of sociality, grid and wave, in relation to nationalism. Most cases of "grid mode" are found in the disciplinary system of the state. By wave, I mean social relationships in a face-to-face situation. It is primarily related to orality as against literacy. Nationalism is a movement to interpellate people into a nation. A modern state needs not only an archival control over its subjects, but a story to mobilize them to fight for the state. The final part starts with two novels by Shun Medoruma of Okinawa origin. Then, I bring up Christian Boltanski's art works, which tell a possibility of wave mode against a gigantic and collective phallic monument, where personal names are not visible.

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Research paper thumbnail of Agency and Seduction against a Girardian Model of Society

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Research paper thumbnail of Morality and Instrumentality A Practical Approach to Theorizing the Other

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Research paper thumbnail of Religion in Everyday Life

Veena Das (ed.) The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Anthropology. Oxford University Press. pp.861-883, 2003

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Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Writing on Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia

Masakazu Tanaka and Musashi Tachikawa eds., Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. SES 50:3-17, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of The Navarātri Festival in Chidambaram, South India

Masakazu Tanaka and Musashi Tachikawa eds., Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. SES 50:117-135

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Research paper thumbnail of Hinoki (Japanese cypress) Lives Twice: The World of Tsunekazu Nishioka, a Temple Carpenter

Views of the Environment in Asian Countries: Their Relationship to Sustainable Development (Asian-Pacific Center/The United Nations University). pp.9-18., 1997

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Research paper thumbnail of Why are Brahman Temple Priests Highest in the Caste Hierarchy?

Nagano Y. and Y. Ikari (eds.) From Vedic Altar to Village to Village Shrine. SES 36: 85-124, 1993

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