William F. Vilas Professor, Ph. D.
Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Office: Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
5462 Social Science Bldg., 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706 USA

tel: 608-262- 2866; fax 608-265-4216; e-mail: eohnukit@wisc.edu
Website: http://www.anthropology.wisc.edu

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2006 Against "Hybridity": Culture as Historical Process. In, Dismantling the East-West Dichotomy: Views from Japanese Anthropology, Joy Hendry and Dixon Wong, eds. London: Routledge. Pp. 11-16. [PDF]


2005 Japanese Monarchy in Historical and Comparative Perspective. In, The Character of Kingship, Declan Quigley, ed. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Pp. 209-232. [PDF]

2004 Always Discontinuous/Continuous and Hybrid by Its Very Nature: The Culture Concept Historicized. Ethnohistory 52 (1): 179-95. [PDF]

2004 Betrayal by Idealism and Aesthetics: Special Attack Force (Kamikaze) Pilots and their Intellectual Trajectories (Part 1). Anthropology Today 20(2): 15-21. [PDF]

2001 Historicization of the Culture Concept. History and Anthropology 12(3): 213-54. [PDF]

1999 We Eat Each Other's Food to Nourish our Body: The Global and the Local as Mutually Constituent Forces. In, Food in Global History, Raymond Grew, ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Pp. 240-272. [PDF]

1999 Ainu Sociality. In, Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People, W.W. Fitzhugh & C. O. Dubreuil, eds. National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 240-245. [PDF]

1998 A Conceptual Model for the Historical Relationship between the Self, and the Internal and External Others: The Agrarian Japanese, the Ainu, and the Special Status People. In, Making Majorities. D. Gladney, ed. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press. Pp. 31-51 (text), 287-294(notes), 309-313 (references). [PDF]

1998 Cherry Blossoms and Their Viewing. In, The Culture of Japan as Seen Through its Leisure. Sepp Linhard and Sabine Frühstück, eds. State University of New York Press. Pp. 213-236. [PDF]

1997 McDonald's in Japan: Changing Manners and Etiquette. In, Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia, James Watson, ed. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press. Pp.161-82; 230-34 (notes). [PDF]

1997 The Reduction of Personhood to Brain and Rationality? Japanese Contestation of Medical High Technology." In, Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge, A. Cunningham and B. Andrews, eds. Manchester, UK: Manchester Univ. Press. Pp. 212- 40. [PDF]

1997 The Ainu Colonization and the Development of "Agrarian Japan" -- A Symbolic Interpretation. In, New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan, H. Hardacre, ed. Leiden: E. J. Brill. Pp. 656-675. [PDF]

1995 Structure, Event and Historical Metaphor: Rice and Identities in Japanese History. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute 30(2) (June, 1995): 1-27. [PDF]

1994 Rice as Metaphor of the Japanese Self. In, Paths Toward the Past , R. Harms, J. Miller, D. Newbury, & M. Wagner, eds. Atlanta, GA: African Studies Assoc. Press. Pp. 455-72. [PDF]

1994 Two Observations of Japanese Religiosity and Rationality. In , The 4th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine, Proceedings, Part I: pp. 13-74. [PDF]

1994 The Power of Absence: Zero Signifiers and Their Transgressions. l'Homme 130 (avriljuin), XXXIV (2):59-76. [PDF]

1993 Nature, pureté et soi primordial: La nature japonaise dans une perspective comparative. Géographie et Cultures 7:75-92. [PDF]

1993 Ainu. In, Encyclopedia of World Cultures , Vol. V. P. Hockings, ed. Human Relations Area Files. Boston: G.K. Hall. Pp. 7-10. [PDF]

1991 The Emperor of Japan as Deity (Kami): An Anthropology of the Imperial System in Historical Perspective. Ethnology XXX (3): 1-17. [PDF]

1990 Monkey as Metaphor?: Transformations of A Polytropic Symbol in Japanese Culture. Man (N.S.) 25(1990): 399-416. [PDF]

1990 The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese. Cultural Anthropology 5:196-215. [PDF]

1990 Introduction: The Historicization of Anthropology. In, Culture Through Time , E. Ohnuki-Tierney, ed. Stanford Univ. Press. Pp. 1-25. [PDF]

1990 The Monkey as Self in Japanese Culture. In, Culture Through Time , E. Ohnuki-Tierney, ed. Stanford Univ. Press. Pp. 128-153. [PDF]

1989 Health Care in Contemporary Japanese Religions. In, Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Eastern Religious Traditions , ed. by L.E. Sullivan. New York: Macmillan. Pp. 59-87. [PDF]

1984 Monkey Performances -- A Multiple Structure of Meaning and Reflexivity in Japanese Culture. In, Text, Play and Story , E. Bruner, ed. Washington, D.C.: American Ethnological Society. Pp. 278-314. [PDF]

1981 Phases in Human Perception/Conception/Symbolization Process -- Cognitive Anthropology and Symbolic Classification. American Ethnologist 8(3): 451-467. [PDF]

1980 Shamans and Imu: Among Two Ainu Groups--Toward a Cross-Cultural Model of Interpretation. Ethos 8(3): 204-228. Reprinted in, Culture Bound Syndromes, R. C. Simons and C. C. Hughes, eds. Dordecht, Holland: Reidel. Pp. 91-110. [PDF]

1977 An Octopus Headache? A Lamprey Boil? Multisensory Perception of 'Habitual Illnesses' and World View of the Ainu. Journal of Anthropological Research 33(3): 245-257. [PDF]

1976 Regional Variations in Ainu Culture. American Ethnologist 3(2): 297-329. [PDF]

1976 Shamanism and World View--Case of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin. In, The Realm of the Extra-Humans: Ideas and Actions, A. Bharati, ed. Paris: Mouton. Pp. 175-200. [PDF]

1973 The Shamanism of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin. Ethnology XII (1):15-29. Abstracted in Human Behavior (June, 1973): 54-55. [PDF]

1973 Sakhalin Ainu Time Reckoning. Man 8(2): 285-299. [PDF]

1972 Spatial Concepts of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin. American Anthropologist 74(3): 426-457. [PDF]

1969 Concepts of Time among the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Sakhalin. American Anthropologist 71:488-492. [PDF]