Shusuke Yagi
Professor of Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Anthropology, and Film Studies
- Phone: 864.294.3184
- Office: Furman Hall 228A
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Born in Kobe, Japan. Brought up in Thailand for five years. Undergraduate study in Japan. Graduate study in the United States.
Honors
- Furman Standard (2011) (one of the six active Furman faculty members honored for their teaching and mentoring)
Education
- Ph.D., University of Washington
- M.A., University of Washington
- B.A., International Christian University, Tokyo
Research Interests
- transdisciplinary studies
- religion
- Japanese literature
- literary theory
- Japanese art
- myths and folklore
- non-western episteme
- self-organizing systems
- political ideology and kingship
- cosmology; philosophy of sciences
- psychological anthropology
- Japanese Popular Culture
Publications
- Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi. London and New York: Routledge Curzon. 2002 (2003 Paperback)
- Review of Refuge of the Honored: Social Organization in a Japanese Retirement Community. In Journal of Asian and African Studies
- "Santi Asoke." In Tai no Jiten (Encyclopedia of Thailand). Yoneo Ishii (ed.). Kyoto: Dohosha. In Japanese.
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