A | Water Control, Irrigation Organization, and Political Economy in Early Modern Japan
“The Development of Irrigation and Drainage on Shōnai Plain,” Transactions of the Tōhō Gakkai (Tokyo) 21:61-78, 1976
Water Control in an Agrarian State: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600-1870. Ph. D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University, 1980
Water Control in Tokugawa Japan: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600-1870. Ithaca: Cornell University China-Japan Program, 1982
Irrigation Management in Japan: A Critical Review of Japanese Social Science Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University China-Japan Program (East Asia Papers Series, Volume 30) and Rural Development Committee (Occasional Paper Series, Number 12), 1982
“Concepts in the Anthropological Study of Irrigation,” American Anthropologist 85(4):880-86, 1983
“Water Use, Water Management, and Water Rights in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868),” a paper prepared for the panel on “Rights in Common in Land and Water in Japanese History” at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association. New York, 1985
B | Deference and Defiance: Popular Protest in Nineteenth-century Japan
1 Popular Protest in Nineteenth-century Shōnai
Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-century Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985
19世紀日本における服従と反抗: 山形県庄内地方の四つの集団抗議. Tokyo: 文学通信, 2024.Translation of Deference and Defiance by ワッパ 騒動 義民 顕彰会・ケリー研究会 and 佐藤エミリー綾子.
2 Fires and Firefighting in Nineteenth-century Edo
“Incendiary Actions: Fire and Firefighting in the Shogun’s Capital and the People’s City.” In James L. McClain, John M. Merriman, and Ugawa Kaoru (eds.), Edo and Paris: The State, Political Power, and Urban Life in Two Early-Modern Societies, pp. 310-330. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994
“江戸における放火：幕府の首都ー民衆の都市における火災と消防活動.” In 江戸とパリ, edited by Ugawa Kaoru, James L. Merriman and James M. McClain, 441-472. Tokyo: 岩田書院 [Translation of “Incendiary Actions” by
C | Rice, Rationalization, and Nostalgia: Culture and Political Economy in Shōnai
“Rationalization and Nostalgia: Cultural Dynamics of New Middle Class Japan,” American Ethnologist 13(4):603-618, 1986
“Japanese No-Noh: The Crosstalk of Public Culture in a Rural Festivity,” Public Culture 2(2):65-81, 1990
「黒川能：農民芸能と祭りにおける中央と地方のダイナミックス」。『年報近代日本研究』19:304-322, 1997 [My adaptation and translation of “Japanese No-Noh”]
“Tractors, Television, and Telephones: Reach Out and Touch Someone in Rural Japan.” In Joseph J. Tobin (ed.), Re-made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society, pp. 77-88. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992
“Rice Revolutions and Farm Families in a Tohoku Region: Why is Farming Culturally Central and Economically Marginal?” in Christopher S. Thompson and John W. Traphagan (editors), Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice, pages 47-71. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006
「農と庄内：地方社会の発展と危機」『山形大学紀要』54:34-39, 1997 [My translation]
“Compromis avec la Modernité: Ethnographie et Vie Quotidienne dans une Plaine Rizicole du Japon,” Anthropologie et Sociétés 22(3):13-22, 1998 [French translation of my English original by Bernard Bernier and André Mirza]
“Japanese Farmers,” Wilson Quarterly 14(4, Autumn):34-41, 1990
“Rural Society in Japan: Past and Present.” In Myron L. Cohen (ed.), Guide to Asian Case Studies in the Social Sciences, pp. 127-136. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe 1992
D | Region and Locality
“Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency,” Daedalus 119(3):207-227, 1990
“日本の地方：中央依存の繁栄.” Inアエスチオン (ed.), 『日米の昭和』, pp. 241-257. Tokyo: TBSブリタニカ.1990 [Translation of “Regional Japan” by
“Hollow Harvest, Fragile Prosperity, Uncertain Future: The Regional Dynamics of Postwar Japan,” in Jackson Bailey (ed.), Study Guide for the video documentary, Hollow Harvest. Earlham College Institute for International Education: MPG Productions, 1998
“ローカルな生活世界から見える現代日本: 人類学者の視点から.” In Inoue Nobutaka 井上順孝 (editor), 『日本文化の研究展望』, pages 141-178. Tokyo: 平凡社, 2016
“Locality in Shōnai: Scale, Containers, Fields, and Horizons,” in Sonja Ganseforth and Hanno Jentzsch (editors), What is the Local in Contemporary Japan? pages 21-36. London: Routledge, 2020.
