danamirsalis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
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Yes. It means they're much more likely to read it. (I know this because I have a syllabus Easter Egg--it's like double the completion rate on semesters where I give them hard copies.)
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Yes, this is the issue I ran into! There ARE two DVD releases that have subtitles--one of them there are like 5 copies catalogued in the world but the other seems possible to get with enough foresight (if you can do a class screening day--it unfortunately doesn't work for our class schedules).
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Worth noting that Red Detachment of Women is on YouTube subtitled in its entirety!
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*if you can get--we're doing good with typing today.
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If fiction is okay, if you can The Legend of the Red Lantern on DVD, one of my colleagues really enjoyed teaching that. I couldn't get it, so I used The Red Detachment of Women (we watched the movie and then watched clips of the ballet in class) and my students really enjoyed analyzing that!
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Are you looking for documentaries specifically or are primary source fiction films also up for grabs?
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Huge, huge congratulations, Dr. Ugoretz!! ๐๐๐๐๐
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Thanks for all your work scanning and archiving all of these! They're a huge boon whenever I'm searching for primary sources to assign. I've used this booklet in my modern Japanese history class twice now and my students have had a lot of fun analyzing it.
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Okay, that's enough from me for now--back to lesson planning and grading. ใฉใใๅฎใใใ้กใ่ดใใพใใ(12/12)
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Most of my time the past few years has been tied up in establishing new preps. I adore teaching, to be clear, and my students are stellar, but I'm excited to maybe not spend every spare moment writing lectures next (academic) year. (11/12)
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Other stuff: I'm the current secretary/treasurer for the Society for the Study of Japanese Religions: www.ssjrweb.org
If you'll be at AAR, please consider coming to our sponsored panel on Saturday at 3 pm! (10/12)
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There's also always my dissertation (available on a ProQuest near you). I have a few other projects in the pipeline, so please stay tuned! (9/12)
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I also have a (very short) piece about gender and fieldwork forthcoming in the New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-ne... (8/12)
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If you want a little taste of this, check out my recent article on menstrual pollution: nccisjpnew.wixsite.com/nccisjp/%E8%... (7/12)
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In summer 2023, I also gave an invited lecture for the National Female Priests Association! Basically, I get to see all the gaps between what shrines and their priests are SUPPOSED to be doing vs. what they are ACTUALLY doing in practice (and this is a big chunk of my research). (6/12)
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I use mixed methods, aka I use archival work, ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews. I've been doing fieldwork in shrines for more than 13 years now, and have formally interviewed ~50 priests (in addition to speaking informally to dozens more). (5/12)
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I've worked on topics like: how gender is constructed and negotiated in the shrine world (by institutions, priests, parishioners), how gender affects labor (and vice-versa), how ritual is used to reinforce gender norms, how gender intersects with other social categories, and more. (4/12)
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Currently about 17% of the priesthood is female, with the number of women in the priesthood increasing every year. The number of men peaked in 2000 and has been declining ever since. This demographic shift has presented a challenge to the dominant gender construction in the shrine world. (3/12)
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I'm currently working on a monograph project on the gendering of the Shinto priesthood in postwar Japan. Basically, in 1946, women were allowed into the Shinto priesthood, supposedly to "open the way for the widows of priests who died in the war" and to "indicate gender equality." (2/12)
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If you're will to add people to the list, I fall into this category!
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I am very new (just joined today), but am in Japanese Studies!