R. Kenji Tierney
Books
R. Kenji Tierney, visiting assistant professor (B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison and
M.A. & Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), is a cultural
anthropologist who specializes in historical and symbolic anthropology,
focusing on national symbols, cultural constructions of the body, and
formations of community through exchange and reciprocity in Japan. He is
currently working on a book entitled Wrestling with Tradition: The Place of
Sumo in Japanese Culture, History and Beyond.
Email: tierneyk@union.edu
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Books
(in preparation) Wrestling with Tradition: The Place of Sumo
in Japanese Culture, History and Beyond.
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Book Chapters
“It’s a Gottsan World: The Role of the Patron in Sumo.”
(2004) In William Kelly (ed.), Fanning the Flames of Fandom:
Fandoms and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan, New York: SUNY Press
(pp. 107-125).
“From Performance to National Sport (Kokugi):
The ‘Nationalization’ of Sumo.”
(2007) in William Kelly (ed.), This Sporting Life: Sports and Body
Culture in Modern Japan. Yale CEAS Occasional Publications: Volume 1. New
Haven: Yale University Council on East Asian Studies. (Pp. 67-89)
“Drinking like a Whale, Eating like a Horse: The Place of
Food in the Sumo World.”
(forthcoming) In Theodore Bestor and Victoria Bestor (eds.),
Cuisine, Consumption, and Culture: Food in Contemporary Japan, Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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Book Reviews
Amy Borovoy (2005) The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics
of Nurturance in Postwar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Anthropological Quarterly 79.4 (2006) 791-795
View it at Anthropological Quarterly
Laura Miller (2006) Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body
Aesthetics. Berkeley: University of California Press.
(forthcoming) American Anthropologist
