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Contributors L. KEITH BROWN is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh where he served for several years as Director of the Asian Studies Center. He has been conducting fieldwork in the To – hoku region of Japan for more than 40 years. His primary research interests focus on community patterns of cooperation, including kinship and neighborhood, farmer production decisions in a global economy, religion and ethnicity, and rural/urban comparisons in changing household composition. WILLIAM W. KELLY is Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies at Yale University. He is author of Deference and Defiance in 19th-Century Japan (Princeton University Press, 1985) and numerous articles on Japanese society. JOHN A. MOCK is a professor at Akita International University in Akita, Japan. He is the author of Culture, Community and Change in a Sapporo Neighborhood 1925–1988 Hanayama (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999). His research interests include rural-urban migration, the political geography of regional and national policies, and local history. DEBRA J. OCCHI is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miyazaki International College in Miyazaki, Japan. She is the author of numerous articles related to cross-cultural studies and anthropology including the cultural construction of emotions in Japan. Her research interests include contemporary Japanese language and culture, emotion, nature, gender, education, and leisure activities. Occhi is coeditor (with Gary B. Palmer) of Languages of Sentiment : Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates, 1999 John Benjamins. ANTHONY S. RAUSCH is Foreign Lecturer at Hirosaki University, located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. His research interests have focused on Aomori Prefecture, examining volunteerism, lifelong education, and culturerelated topics. He is coauthor of The Birth of Tsugaru Shamisen: The Origin 207 and Development of a Japanese Folk Performing Art (Aomori University Press, 1998) and author of A Year With the Local Newspaper: Understanding the Times in Aomori, Japan, 1999 (University Press of America, 2001). NANCY R. ROSENBERGER is Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University. She is the author of Gambling with Virtue: Japanese Women and Sense of Self in a Changing Nation (University of Hawaii, 2001). Rosenberger is currently engaged in a longitudinal project that traces the changes in women’s lives in Tokyo and Tohoku. She also conducts research in Central Asia on women and NGOs. At Oregon State, she codirects the program in Anthropology of Business and Organizations. CHRISTOPHER S. THOMPSON is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture in the Department of Linguistics at Ohio University. He is also Director of Ohio University’s study abroad program at Chubu University in Nagoya, Japan. Thompson (2002) is the author of numerous articles on the rural culture of northeastern Japan including, “Recruiting cyber townspeople: local government and the Internet in a rural Japanese township,” Technology in Society 24:249–360. JOHN W. TRAPHAGAN is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is former editor-in-chief of the Journal of CrossCultural Gerontology, the author of Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan (State University of New York Press, 2000) and The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan (Carolina Academic Press, in press), and editor (with John Knight) of Demographic Change and the Family in Japan’s Aging Society (State University of New York Press, 2003). TOMOKO WATANABE TRAPHAGAN holds a Ph.D. in foreign language education from the University of Pittsburgh, and currently is a Humanities and Social Science Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main interests include ethnographic research, learner autonomy, learning in naturalistic situations, interactional competence, and instructional technology. 208 Contributors ...

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