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LINDA ISAKO ANGST
Asst. Prof. of Anthropology
Box 60, Ph. (503) 768-7659
e-mail: angst@lclark.edu
Linda Isako Angst's research in cultural anthropology
has focused on questions of gender, ethnicity,
colonialism/postcoloniality, and national identity in Japan.
Her dissertation for Yale University looked at questions of
Okinawan women's political subjectivity, particularly as
understood through their narratives about wartime
experiences and memories as well as their postwar lives
under US military occupation. Today she studies the effects
on Okinawan identity (and especially on women's lives) of
developing Okinawa as a tourist site for Japanese
consumption. Other research includes the politcs of
representation in Japan's new peace museums since the death
of the Showa emperor; the gendered politics surrounding the
development of a national dance theatre in Okinawa; and a
collaborative, comparative study of aging and diet in
Okinawa and Tohoku. Born in Yokohama, Japan of a Japanese
mother and American father, Linda has lived half of her life
in Japan (including Okinawa). Before going to Yale, Linda
completed a master's in East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley on
comparative US/Japan early education, free-lanced as an
editor and translator in Tokyo, and graduated from Kenyon
College with a BA in politics. She also likes to draw,
paint, and make prints, especially with her daughter.
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