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Rethinking Japanese feminisms

Rethinking Japanese feminisms 256 BOOK REVIEWS (205, original italics). This productive tension between possibilities and limitations, or between flexibility and inflexibility, is part and parcel of what it means to live transnationally. As an anthropologist who also conducted bilingual fieldwork about the Brazilian dekasegi migrants in the same region of Japan only a year after LeBaron von Baeyer, I am impressed by the depth of her compelling findings and nuanced analyses. Personally, I would have liked to see a clearer narrative arc coursing through the entire book, as its current structure is more enumerative and juxtapositional than arching in a through-line. Given that roughly a third of the book deals with Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity among the migrants, I also wonder if the book’s treatment of “faith” could have also benefitted from the now sizable literature in the Anthropology of Christianity, such as the work of Joel Robbins. Living Transnationally Between Japan and Brazil is an important, comprehensive, and deeply researched book about the improvisational and ever-unfolding nature of transnational living. I highly recommend this book to scholars of Japan, minority identities, and transnationalism, and anyone else who is fascinated by the kaleidoscope of identities en route. Suma Ikeuchi University of California, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Rethinking Japanese feminisms

Rückert, Jasmin
Contemporary Japan , Volume 33 (2): 4 – Jul 3, 2021
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Rethinking Japanese feminisms

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256 BOOK REVIEWS (205, original italics). This productive tension between possibilities and limitations, or between flexibility and inflexibility, is part and parcel of what it means to live transnationally. As an anthropologist who also conducted bilingual fieldwork about the Brazilian dekasegi migrants in the same region of Japan only a year after LeBaron von Baeyer, I am impressed by the depth of her compelling findings and nuanced analyses. Personally, I would have liked to see a clearer...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2020 Jasmin Rückert
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1869-2737
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10.1080/18692729.2020.1735608
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256 BOOK REVIEWS (205, original italics). This productive tension between possibilities and limitations, or between flexibility and inflexibility, is part and parcel of what it means to live transnationally. As an anthropologist who also conducted bilingual fieldwork about the Brazilian dekasegi migrants in the same region of Japan only a year after LeBaron von Baeyer, I am impressed by the depth of her compelling findings and nuanced analyses. Personally, I would have liked to see a clearer narrative arc coursing through the entire book, as its current structure is more enumerative and juxtapositional than arching in a through-line. Given that roughly a third of the book deals with Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity among the migrants, I also wonder if the book’s treatment of “faith” could have also benefitted from the now sizable literature in the Anthropology of Christianity, such as the work of Joel Robbins. Living Transnationally Between Japan and Brazil is an important, comprehensive, and deeply researched book about the improvisational and ever-unfolding nature of transnational living. I highly recommend this book to scholars of Japan, minority identities, and transnationalism, and anyone else who is fascinated by the kaleidoscope of identities en route. Suma Ikeuchi University of California,

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2021

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