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ISSN 1554-3749
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Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2025May 07, 2025 EDT

Seeing Culture, Aging and Maturity Through the Lens of The Wizard of Oz and The Makioka Sisters in Class, Fiction, and Film

James Stanlaw,
David Plathmaturity and agingutopialife coursevisual literarynovels as ethnography

Articles in Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2025

Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2025
  • Editorial Forward
    Laura Miller
  • Table of Contents
    Laura Miller
  • David W. Plath: Creating a Portrait
    Susan Orpett Long
  • Dave Plath: The Last Benedictine in Japan Anthropology
    William W Kelly
  • Introduction: Dave Plath Among the Utopians: Fieldnotes, March, 1965
    William W Kelly
  • Life Lived in Long Engagements with the Cultural Symbols of Japan
    Millie Creighton
  • Seeing Culture, Aging and Maturity Through the Lens of The Wizard of Oz and The Makioka Sisters in Class, Fiction, and Film
    James Stanlaw
  • Archive to Arcadia: The After Hours and Anchiku Revisited
    Gavin Whitelaw
  • Repatriation and Reconciliation: Korean Victims of Forced Labor in Japan and David Plath’s Documentary So Long Asleep
    Byung-Ho ChungKi-Chan Song
  • Anthropology as Pedagogy: Guiding Students towards a David Plath-style “Feel for the Field”
    Dawn Grimes-MacLellan
  • A Long Engagement: Exploring David Plath’s Anthropological Accounts as Historical Source and Perspective on Japan over the Past Fifty Years
    Darius BarnesYingzhi LuDavid WallaceRoderick Wilson
  • Afterword: Plathian Memory Transmission and Media Worlds
    Laura Miller
  • David W. Plath Photographs
    The Editors of Studies on Asia
  • "You’ll Need to Bring a Gift”: Baumkuchen Cake, Airmail Letters, and the Wild World of International Publishing
    Rebecca Copeland
  • Images of Asian Americans in U.S. Higher Education
    E. Julia Kim
  • A World Through Feminist Eyes: Travelogues by Na Hyesŏk (1896-1948) as a Digital Humanities Project
    Ji-Eun Lee
  • Book Review
    Xian WangLiang Luo
  • Book Review
    Jamie HakimJames CummingsIngrid YoungLin Song
  • Kawaii Pedagogy: An Exhibit Curated with Students
    Laura Miller
Studies on Asia
Stanlaw, James. 2025. “Seeing Culture, Aging and Maturity Through the Lens of The Wizard of Oz and The Makioka Sisters in Class, Fiction, and Film.” Studies on Asia 10 (1): 114–34.
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