Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
Office: LSB 124
(520) 621-5476
e-mail: bmcveigh (at) email.arizona.edu
Teaches Japanese Popular Culture, Japanese and Chinese Nationalisms, and the Anthropology of Japan.
He is interested in political and economic anthropology, nationalism, education, gender, and cultural psychology. His major publications include The State Bearing Gifts: Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education (2006); Nationalisms of Japan: Managing and Mystifying Identity (2003); Japanese Higher Education as Myth (2002); Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling, and Self-Presentation in Japan (2000); The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality (1998); Life in a Japanese Women’s Junior College: Learning to Be Ladylike (1997); and Spirits, Selves, and Subjectivity in a Japanese New Religion (1997). He is currently doing research for his next book, The Propertied Self: Politics, Psychology, and Ownership in Global Perspective.
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