Satsuki Kawano

Dr. Satsuki Kawano is a Japan anthropologist. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (U.S.), she held positions at Harvard University (Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions) and the University of Notre Dame (Assistant Professor) before joining the University of Guelph in 2004. Most recently, as a Japan Foundation Fellow (2008-2009), Kawano conducted fieldwork for her new project on the declining fertility rate and the ideal family size in Japan. 

Research Area(s): 
Ritual, religion, kinship, morality, gender, identity, death, aging, family, and Japan.
Selected Publications: 

Satsuki Kawano. Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites. (University of Hawai’i Press, 2010).

Satsuki Kawano. Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing in Late 19th Century, in Adeline Masquelier (ed), Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface (Indiana University Press, 2005), p.149-167.

Satsuki Kawano. Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005)

Satsuki Kawano. Scattering Ashes of the Family Dead: Memorial Activity among the Bereaved in Contemporary Japan. Ethnology 43(3):233-48, 2004b.

Satsuki Kawano. Pre-funerals in Contemporary Japan: The Making of a New Ceremony of Later Life among Aging Japanese. Ethnology 43(2):1-12, 2004a.

Email: 
skawano@uoguelph.ca
Phone: 
53912
Office Number: 
603
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
Canada

Tel:519-824-4120 x56525
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