My first monograph, ‘Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan’ (based on my doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford and published in 2019 by University of Pennsylvania Press), explores the lived experience of aging in urban Japan, and the ways in which older people construct a meaningful and satisfying life through narrative activity and practices of care which pervade everyday sociality. The book describes their efforts to navigate pervasive tensions between dependenc...| www.socanth.cam.ac.uk
Disposing of unwanted dolls and toys in Japan is not so easy. Throughout the year temples across Japan hold a “ningyo kuyo” (人形供養), a funeral ritual for unwanted dolls, especially traditional dolls. Held in both Buddhist and Shinto temples alike, the ceremony is a spiritual send-off to thank dolls f| Religion Unplugged
Some thoughts on thin tablets, villainous things, and the weirdly hazy boundaries between tools and us.| technocomplex.substack.com
Apple made a terrible mistake: it told the truth| creativegood.com
Some 99-year-old tools might scare you. Fantastical creatures I ran into while reading for a chapter I'm writing. And children working with tools.| technocomplex.substack.com