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Introduction: Gender as Work (2022)
Book Chapter
Gygi, F., & Hansen, G. M. (2022). Introduction: Gender as Work. In The Work of Gender: Service, Performance and Fantasy in Contemporary Japan (1-35). NIAS Press

"Each Life Has its Place": Transgender Existence in Contemporary Kansai (2022)
Thesis
Gamberton, L. "Each Life Has its Place": Transgender Existence in Contemporary Kansai. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

My PhD dissertation is an ethnography of transgender identities in Japan with a focus on Kyoto and Osaka. To date, Japan has not figured as an area of interest in Anglophone Trans Studies; nor has transness been the subject of much scholarly attentio... Read More about "Each Life Has its Place": Transgender Existence in Contemporary Kansai.

Hôtes et otages : Entasser des objets chez soi dans le Japon contemporain (2019)
Journal Article
Gygi, F. (2019). Hôtes et otages : Entasser des objets chez soi dans le Japon contemporain. L'Homme (Paris. 1961), 231/2, 151-172. https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.35567

Material culture studies often use a framework defined by appropriation, in which human actors can make circulating objects their own by investing them with meaning. But what happens when a present given to you cannot entirely become yours ? This art... Read More about Hôtes et otages : Entasser des objets chez soi dans le Japon contemporain.

Things that Believe: Talismans, Amulets, Dolls, and How to Get Rid of Them (2019)
Journal Article
Gygi, F. (2019). Things that Believe: Talismans, Amulets, Dolls, and How to Get Rid of Them. Japanese journal of religious studies, 45(2), 423-452. https://doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.45.2.2018.423-452

This article looks at religious and semi-religious paraphernalia in everyday life from the perspective of disposal. Recent research in religious studies and anthropology has focused on the ways in which beliefs are performed through religious objects... Read More about Things that Believe: Talismans, Amulets, Dolls, and How to Get Rid of Them.

Robot Companions: The Animation of Technology and the Technology of Animation in Japan (2018)
Book Chapter
Gygi, F. (2018). Robot Companions: The Animation of Technology and the Technology of Animation in Japan. In M. Astor-Aguilera, & G. Harvey (Eds.), Rethinking Relations and Animism: Personhood and Materiality (94-111). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203709887

Contemporary Japan is often described in utopian terms as a place where humans and nonhumans live and work together in harmony. This acceptance of nonhuman others is explained by some anthropologists as stemming from an “animist unconscious” (Allison... Read More about Robot Companions: The Animation of Technology and the Technology of Animation in Japan.