Between Reternee Kid's Life and American Anthropology

"Living" in "My Hometown Sendai" as an "American-Trained Anthropologist"

Abstract

This paper examines my shifting identity and positionality as an anthropologist who is both "native" (I was born to Japanese parents in Sendai, Japan) and "alien" (I spent two years as a child in Buffalo, New York, and five years as a graduate student in anthropology at Michigan State University) to Japanese society. In particular, this paper analyzes my shifting attitude toward Japanese studies.