Goldstein-Gidoni Ofra, East Asian Studies


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Faculty: Social Sciences and Faculty of Humanities
Depts.: Sociology and Anthropology and East Asian Studies

EDUCATION

1980-83 - Tel-Aviv University - Sociology and Anthropology and Theater Arts - B.A.

1984-5 - Tel-Aviv University - Theater Arts - B.A. June 1986

1984-88 - Tel-Aviv University - Sociology and Anthropology (MAGNA CUM LAUDE) - M.A. June 1988

1991-93 - University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (U.K) Anthropology and Sociology - Ph.D. July 1993

FURTHER STUDIES

1988-89 - Osaka University of Foreign Studies (Osaka, Japan) - Japanese language Diploma and Things Japanese (intermediate level) March 1989


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1984-85 - Tel-Aviv University - Sociology and Anthropology - Research Assistant

1986-88 - Tel-Aviv University - Sociology and Anthropology - Instructor

1987-88 - The Open University, Tel-Aviv - Sociology - Tutor

1989-91 - Osaka University (Japan) - Anthropology - Research Fellow

1990-91 - Osaka University (Japan) - Anthropology - Doctoral Research Fellow

1993-94 - Tel-Aviv University - Labor studies - Temporary Lecturer

1993-94 - The Hebrew University - East Asian Studies - Temporary Lecturer

1993-95 - The Hebrew University - The Truman institute - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

1994-5 - Tel-Aviv University - Sociology and Anthropology - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

1995- Tel-Aviv University - Sociology and Anthropology and East Asian Studies - Lecturer

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS)

European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)

Consumption Network in East and South East Asia (ConsumAsiaN)

Japan Research Center

Israel Socilogical Association

Israel Anthropological Association (memeber of committee)


Major publications (books and major articles):


BOOKS

Goldstein-Gidoni, Ofra. 1997 Packaged Japaneseness: Weddings, Business and Brides. London and Honolulu: Curzon Press and University of Hawaii Press.


JOURNAL ARTICLES:

under Review:

"The Production of Culture: Packaging Japaneseness in the Contemporary Commercial Wedding".

"Becoming a Gendered Adult in Contemporary Japan: The Coming of Age Day and the Cultivation of Femininity"


OTHER PUBLICATIONS


Reviews

Book Review: "Japanese Sense of Self" by Nancy R. Rosenberger (ed.) 1992.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ethnic and Racial Studies Vol. 16(4) 1993 (pp.754-5).

Teaches in the following subject areas:


Anthropology
Japanese ethnography
Tradition in modern society
Women in modern Japan
Work organizations
Japanese society and culture

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


Work Organizations in Japan
An Anthropological Outlook on Japanese Modern Women
Introduction to Anthropology
Tradition in Modern Japan: Anthropological Perspective

Areas of current research interest:


Gender and dress in Japan
Japanese concepts of feminity
Attaining adulthood in Japan
Tradition in modern Japanese society
Japanese ceremonial occasions
The production of culture in ceremonial events

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone,fax,etc.):


19, Harimonim St.
P.O.B 813
Even-Yehuda 40500

Tel:
(H) (09) 8996156
(W) (03)6409394

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