The SEAA Column is the Society for East Asian Anthropology's column in Anthropology News (AN), the official newspaper of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), which is published monthly, except for June, July and August. AN is a benefit of AAA membership and is also available by separate subscription. Currently over 11,000 individuals and nearly 150 institutions receive AN each month.
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Between Japan and the US: An Interview with Harumi Befu
SEAA Convenes in Philadelphia: AAA 2009 by Junko Teruyama
2009 SEAA Prize Recipients
A Message from the SEAA President by Jennifer Robertson (U Michigan)
Performing the Family Planning Project in Post-Socialist China by Junjie Chen (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity": IUAES in Kunming by Sandra Teresa Hyde (McGill U)
Introducing the Current SEAA Elected Board Members by Jennifer Robertson (SEAA President, U Michigan)
Francis LK Hsu Book Prize by Jennifer Robertson (SEAA President, U Michigan)
A Career in South Asian Anthropology by Rubie Watson (Harvard U)
Highlights from the 2008 Annual Meeting by Junko Teruyama (U Michigan), Teresa Kuan (U Southern California) and June Mee (Harvard U)
Making the Oral Contraceptive "For Me" in Japan: Managing the Semiotics of Reproductive Health in Virtual Space by Kathryn Goldfarb (U Chicago)
Anthropology and the Anaconda: China Post-2008 by Charlene Makley
An Interview with Arthur Kleinman (Harvard U)
SEAA Conference Report by Ju-chen Chen (Chinese U Hong Kong) and Matthew West (Columbia U)
Breaking Away from Traditional Boundaries by Anru Lee (SEAA Program Editor)
Ethnography as Evidence and the Endurance of the Ethnographic Relationship by Gene Cooper (U Southern California)
Conversation with Sonia Ryang
Expanding the Anthropology of East Asia by Allison Alexy (Yale U)
The Wedding Banquet Revisited: "Contract Marriages" Between South Korean Gays and Lesbians by Jogn (Song Pae) Cho (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Recipient of the 2007 Theodore C Bestor Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Paper in East Asian Anthropology)
Conversation between Ann Anagnost (U Washington) and Trang X Ta (U Washington)
A Conversation with Beth Notar and Joshua Roth
A Conversation with Aihwa Ong
New Directions in East Asian Anthropology by Carolyn S Stevens (U Melbourne)
A Dialogue between Glenda S Roberts (Waseda U, Tokyo) and Gavin Whitelaw (International Christian U, Tokyo)
Exploring Prehistoric Agriculture: A conversation between Gyoung-Ah Lee (Seoul National University, Korea) and Sarah Milledge Nelson (U Denver)
Conversations With James (Woody) Watson
Finding Resonance in East Asian Anthropology by Carolyn S Stevens (U Melbourne)
Bridging Asian and Asian-American Studies by Christine R Yano (U Hawai'i)
Conversation between Merry White (Boston U) and Masayo Nishida
Conversation with Roger L Janelli
Conversation between Bill Kelly (Yale U) and Allison Alexy
National Agendas, Local Income and Knotted Knowledge in Huangbaiyu by Shannon May (UC Berkeley, Recipient of the 2006 Theodore C Bestor Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Paper in East Asian Anthropology)
Conversation between Jong Bum Kwon (UCLA) and Laurel Kendall (American Museum of Natural History and Columbia U)
Report on SEAA Activities in DC by Laura Miller (SEAA President)
Commodified Romance in a Tokyo Host Club by Akiko Takeyama (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Conversation between Chizuko Ueno (U Tokyo) and Aya Kitamura (U Tokyo)
An Interview with Helen Siu by Elana Chipman (Cornell U)
Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference Report by Carolyn S Stevens (U Melbourne)
Teaching East Asia by Laura Miller (SEAA President)
An Interview with Mariko Asano Tamanoi on Becoming an Anthropologist by Kyoko Takehana (Harvard U)
Must-Download TV and Cool Japan by Ian Condry (MIT)
SEAA Convenes Mini-Conference by Laura Miller (Loyola U Chicago)
2004 SEAA Prize Recipients
Cultural Belonging among Korean Adoptees by Eleana Kim (New York U)
Japanese Girls' Linguistic and Social Negotiations with Peer Groups by Ayumi Miyazaki
History, Sovereignty and Chinese Identity in Transition-Era Macau by Cathryn Clayton (U Macau)
The Francis L K Hsu Book Prize
SEAA Election Results
SEAA "Reports from the Field" Workshop for Graduate Students
Conversation with Takie Lebra
Severe Disabilities, Liberalism and Social Welfare Policy in Japan and the US by Karen Nakamura (Yale U)
The Ethnography of Frederick Wulsin, Northwest China 1923 by Maris Gillette (Haverford C)
Birth Control in Urban China by Kari Olson (U Iowa)
Migration and Modernity: The Mainland Wives of Hong Kong Men by Nicole Newendorp (Harvard U)
School Excursions in Japan by Dawn Grimes-MacLellan (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Anthropology of the Koreas by Nancy Abelmann (U Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Taiwanese Nation? by Scott Simon (U Ottawa)
Indigineity and Nature Conservation in China's Yunnan Province by Michael Hathaway (U Michigan)
The Bad Girls of East Asia by Laura Miller (Loyola U)
When Bar Girls are Good by Erika Evasdottir (Columbia U)
2003 E-ASIA(S) Panels
Learning to Belong to a Nation in Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews (Chinese U of Hong Kong)
"Wearing Hanbok is Just Something We Koreans Do" by Rebecca N Ruhlen (U of Washington)
Where Is It Going? Tracking Japanese Funerals by Hikaru Suzuki (Wittenberg U)
A Second Look at Gaoqiao by Paul Hockings (The Field Museum)
Shanghai Nostalgia by Tianshu Pan (Georgetown U)
The Politics of Appearance in East Asia by Bonnie Adrian (U Denver)
Trip to Henry Country by Ok-pyo Moon (Academy of Korean Studies and Harvard U)
Austronesian-Speaking Groups in Taiwan by Kunhui Ku (Tsing Hua U)
Normative Dynamics of International Assistance by Ann Frechette (Hamilton C)
E² + J: Engineers/Ethics in Japan by Scott Clark (Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech)
Desensationalizing the Mosuo by Eileen Rose Walsh (U of Massachusetts)
China's One-Child Policy by Vanessa Fong (Harvard U)
Midwest Japan Seminar
Studying Mind and Body in Japan by John W Traphagen (U of Texas-Austin)
Cremation and Burial in Korean Mortuary Culture by Robert Pearson Flaherty (Kyungpook National U)
General information on the creation of the East Asia Section, in its first column.
Reply to John McCreery by Sara Davis (Yale U)
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) by David Slater (Sophia U and U Chicago)
Social Stratification in South Korea by Denise Potzeba Lett
The Midwest Japan Seminar
News from Hong Kong by Joseph Bosco
Beyond Cultural Differences by John McCreery
Filipina "Entertainers" by Sea-ling Cheng (Oxford U)
Adventures in Chinese Bureaucracy by Gene Cooper (U of Southern California)