A | Water Control and Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin
“The Development of Irrigation and Drainage on Shōnai Plain,” Transactions of the Tōhō Gakkai (Tokyo) 21:61-78, 1976
Water Control in Tokugawa Japan: Irrigation Organization in a Japanese River Basin, 1600-1870. Ithaca: Cornell University China-Japan Program, 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 in Nineteenth-century Japan
Popular Protest in Nineteenth-century Shōnai
Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-century Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985
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
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.
“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
“Compromis avec la Modernité: Ethnographie et Vie Quotidienne dans une Plaine Rizicole du Japon,” Anthropologie et Sociétés 22(3):13-22, 1998 [My English original and French translation 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.
D | Region and Locality
“Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency,” Daedalus 119(3):207-227, 1990
“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.
