# Anne Allison

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Anne Allison, "Being Dead Otherwise" (Duke UP, 2023)

In contemporary Japan, death isn’t what it used to be. Anne Allison’s Being Dead Otherwise (Duke UP, 2023) examines the changing realities of death as a personal and social phenomenon and an opportunity for business innovation and “self-death making.” Factors including the world’s oldest population…

Anne Allison, "Being Dead Otherwise" (Duke UP, 2023)

In contemporary Japan, death isn’t what it used to be. Anne Allison’s Being Dead Otherwise (Duke UP, 2023) examines the changing realities of death as a personal and social phenomenon and an opportunity for business innovation and “self-death making.” Factors including the world’s oldest population…

Weebs

Weebs… and the people who hate them. Japan has always had a distinctive relationship with the West. But ever since it broke out on the global stage with its “gross national cool” - distributing an array of films, shows, video games, and toys the world over, Westerners have taken on a particular fas…

Anne Allison on Japan, hostess clubs, precarity, the popular, automated graves

Anne Allison on Japanese hostess clubs, popular culture, precarity, and automated graves You can read about her work here: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/anne.allison  

On Endings - with Anne Allison

How can thinking about funerals and life's endings offer new ways to imagine our worlds? In this episode, On Endings, our guest Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, discusses planning for life endings and how it has shifte…

E293: From Truffles to Trash - Lessons on Food Waste Prevention

Over the last several years, I have been thinking about food waste and food loss a lot. It's been a topic that we've seen in many spaces in the US and around the world. And it's interesting to compare how the US handles food waste with other countries. To that end, we will learn more about how Bel…