Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies

Anthropology
Cultural Production
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Religion. Anthropology of the body. Commodification. Psychoanalytic theory. East Asia. Japan.

Awards and Honors

Slberger Fellow, Boston Psychonalytic Society and Institute (2008)

Fulbright Research Fellowship in Japan, 2003-2004 (2003 - 2004)

Mazer Grant. Brandeis University (2003)

Northeast Asia Council (Association of Asian Studies). Small grant for research in Japan (2003)

Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University, 2002-2003 (2002)

Social Science Research Council, Advanced Research Grant for Research in Japan (2002)

Courses Taught

ANTH	80a	Anthropology of Religion
ANTH	105a	Myth and Ritual
ANTH	130b	Visuality and Culture
ANTH	137b	Gender and the Sacred in Asia
ANTH	144a	The Anthropology of Gender
ANTH	145a	Anthropology of the Body
ANTH	178b	Culture, Gender, and Power in East Asia
ANTH	201a	History of Anthropological Thought
ANTH	207b	Trauma: Theory and Experience
USEM	72a	War and Memory
WMGS	198a	Women's and Gender Studies Research Seminar

Scholarship

Schattschneider, Ellen. "The Work of Sacrifice in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Enigma of Fascist Aesthetics at Yasukuni Shrine." The Culture of Japanese Fascism. Ed. Tansman, Alan. Duke University Press, 2006 (forthcoming)

Schattschneider, Ellen. "¿Memory Work in the Shadow of the A-Bomb: Transitional Objects and Circuits of Trauma.¿." Department of Anthropology seminar,, Mt. Holyoke College. March 12.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "¿Memory Work in the Shadow of the A-Bomb: Transitional Objects and Circuits of Trauma.¿." bi-annual meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Asilomar, CA. May 28.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "¿The Anthropology of Exile, Displacement and Dislocation: Notes on Alienation and Transitional Phenomena¿ (Co-authored with Mark Auslander)." Society for Biblical Literature annual conference: Warfare in Ancient Israel section, Boston, MA. November 25.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "The Bloodstained Doll: Violence and the Gift in Wartime Japan." The Journal of Japanese Studies Summer (2005).

Studying the Anthropology of Women and Religion in Japan. Schattschneider, Ellen. Japan News - Online Publication, 2004.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Book Review of Helen Hardacre: "Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan"." Journal of Asian Studies 63. 4 (2004): 1134-6.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Family Resemblaces: Memorial Images and the Face of Kinship." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30. 1-2 (2004).

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Response to: Masamichi S. Inoue. "We Are Okinawans but of a Different Kind: New/Old Social Movements and the U.S. Military in Okinawa"." Current Anthropology 45. 1 (2004): 99-101.

Virtual exhibition on Akakura Mountain Shrine. Schattschneider, Ellen. On Line Publication, 2003.

Schattschneider, Ellen. Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain.. Duke University Press, 2003.

Schattschneider, Ellen. "Buy me a bride: Death and exchange in northern Japanese bride doll marriage." American Ethnologist 28. 4 (2001).