All Outputs (7)

Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World (2023)
Book Chapter
Gygi, F. (2023). Locating Hoarding: How Spatial Concepts Shape Disorders in Japan and the Anglophone World. In S. Newell (Ed.), Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective (119-142). Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805390930-007

Robots in the Wild: An Ethnography of Robot-Human Interactions outside the Laboratory (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gygi, F. (2023). Robots in the Wild: An Ethnography of Robot-Human Interactions outside the Laboratory. Aubervilliers

This exploratory research project looks at how robots interact with the French public in the ‘wild’; that is, outside of the controlled environment of the laboratory or the psychological experiment. The aim was to understand concrete human-robot inte... Read More about Robots in the Wild: An Ethnography of Robot-Human Interactions outside the Laboratory.

The Afterlives of Dolls: On the Productive Death of Terminal Commodities (2023)
Journal Article
Gygi, F. (2023). The Afterlives of Dolls: On the Productive Death of Terminal Commodities. Ars orientalis, 52, 197-221. https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.3993

Can dolls die? This paper examines memorial services for dolls (ningyō kuyō) in Japan as conduits to disposal. Dolls, once bought, are widely understood to be terminal commodities: they can only be passed down to a narrow group of relatives and often... Read More about The Afterlives of Dolls: On the Productive Death of Terminal Commodities.

Review of: Dahl, Shayne (prod.) and Satoshi Watanabe (dir.). The Buddha mummies of North Japan. 20 mins. DVD / PAL, colour. Watertown, Mass.: DER, 2017. $29.95 (home use) (2023)
Journal Article
Gygi, F. (2023). Review of: Dahl, Shayne (prod.) and Satoshi Watanabe (dir.). The Buddha mummies of North Japan. 20 mins. DVD / PAL, colour. Watertown, Mass.: DER, 2017. $29.95 (home use). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29(2), 462-463. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13923

Violent Cop (1989) Afterthoughts with Fabio Gygi and Satona Suzuki (2023)
Digital Artefact
Suzuki, S., & Gygi, F. Violent Cop (1989) Afterthoughts with Fabio Gygi and Satona Suzuki

High fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India (2023)
Thesis
Rijneveld, C. J. High fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is an ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India, a demographic that is underrepresented in HIV/Aids research. It explores the effects of the biomedicalization of the HIV/Aids epidemic over the past decad... Read More about High fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among gay and bisexual men in urban India.

Embrace me as I am: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan Community surrounding Male Porn Stars (2023)
Thesis
Kodaka, M. Embrace me as I am: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan Community surrounding Male Porn Stars. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This exploratory research looks at female fans of male porn actors in Jôsei-muke Adult Videos (AV) in Japan. Jôsei-muke is a pornographic genre aimed at heterosexual women that features good-looking male porn actors called eromen and lovemen. This ne... Read More about Embrace me as I am: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan Community surrounding Male Porn Stars.