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Anne Allison

Anne Allison
Anne Allison is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and author of Precarious Japan, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, and Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club.


Dealing with the Dead in Japan: On Cleaning Up After the Departed

Anne Allison Considers the Post-Mortem Care Work of “Keepers”
March 10, 2023  By Anne Allison
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