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Professor, Department of Anthropology

Interests: political economy, symbolism, Marxist anthropology, aging; East Asia, Japan.

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Interests: political economy, symbolism, Marxist anthropology, aging; East Asia, Japan.

Present	Faculty Member, Western Washington University ‐ Center for East Asian Studies
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Political economy, Symbolism, Marxist anthropology, Aging, East Asia, and Japan

Department of Anthropology
Arntzen Hall 344
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225
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Articles (21)

Explaining Doraemon’s perduring popularity: Structural analysis, specious technology and ...

Contemporary Japan (2018)

Robert C. Marshall

Structural analysis of the Japanese anime Doraemon reveals the source of the unimaginable popularity of this children’s cartoon in the paradigmatic structure ...

Gender inequality and family formation in Japan

Asian Anthropology (2017)

Robert C Marshall

The way Japanese culture forms families (ie) has historically provided women with great autonomy. The formation of the ie as a perpetuating, ...

“What Doraemon, the Earless Blue Robot Cat from the 22nd ...

Anthropology & Aging (2016)

Robert C Marshall

Structural analysis of the phenomenally popular and enduring Japanese anime Doraemon helps us think about what we might hope to ...

Review: Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts. Edited by ...

American Journal of Human Biology (2013)

Robert Marshall

JDT is a detailed compilation and examination of changes in the Japanese national diet over the past 150 years and ...

Does Certification and Self-Governance Professionalise Co-operative Home-Care Workers? The Attractions ...

Journal of Co-operative Studies (2013)

Robert C. Marshall

The rapidly-growing home care co-operative Kōreikyō combines features of consumer and worker co-operatives of, by and for over 30,000 seniors ...

Review: Waiting for Wolves in Japan: An Anthropological Study of ...

American Anthropologist (2007)

Robert C. Marshall

The title Waiting for Wolves in Japan is not misleading, exactly, for the organizational structure of the book does parallel ...

Japan's Worker Co-operative Movement into the 21st Century

the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (2006)

Robert C. Marshall

The pace of Japan’s economy is picking up again after more than a decade of stasis. During this long period ...

Of, By, and For Seniors: Japanese Seniors Co-operatives

Yes! A Magazine of Positive Futures (2005)

Robert C. Marshall

Koreikyo, or Seniors Co-operative, is a hybrid consumer and worker co-operative of, by, and for seniors. Its mission is to ...

Dai Yon-kai Shibu Chiku Rökyösha Kyödökumiai Kaigi (Fourth Annual Western ...

Kyödö no Hakken (2003)

Robert C Marshall

The Culture of Cooperation in Three Japanese Worker Co-operatives

Economic and Industrial Democracy (2003)

Robert C Marshall

The critical problem in the relations of production for worker-owned and managed enterprises is not the exploitation of labor by ...

Review: An Introduction to Japanese Society: Office Ladies and Salaried ...

American Anthropologist (1999)

Robert C. Marshall

Watokomu-gun Beringuhamu-shi in okeru Kyödö (The Cooperatives of Whatcom County)

Kyödö no Hakken (1996)

Robert C Marshall

Urbanized Hamlets, Collective Action and Municipal Administration in Japan

City and Society (1994)

Robert C Marshall

BECAUSE OF ADMINISTRATIVE amalgamations, Japanese cities contain within their limits substantial rural areas. Where they have not been overwhelmed by ...

Kyödö Rödö no Genba o Taiken shite (Experiencing Cooperative Labor ...

Kyödö no Hakken (1994)

Robert C Marshall

Working in a Seikatsu Collective and in Other Japanese Worker ...

Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter (1994)

Robert C Marshall

Incompatibilities in Preferences for Strategies between the Americans and the ...

Asian Cultural Studies (1993)

Robert C Marshall

Moses, Oedipus, Structuralism, and History

History of Religions (1989)

Robert C. Marshall

Myths emerge in consciousness as solutions to problems of existence among those who find it worthwhile to reproduce those myths. ...

Review: Okubo Diary: Portrait of a Japanese Valley by Brian ...

Journal of Japanese Studies (1987)

Robert C. Marshall

Okubo Diary is not, strictly speaking, a diary, but the artistic refashioning in chronological order of the contents of three ...

Giving a Gift to the Hamlet: Rank, Solidarity, and Productive ...

Ethnology (1985)

Robert C. Marshall

This paper examines the strategic pursuit of family well-being and village status under conditions of overt co-operation and covert competition ...

Kokan kankei moderu no yoru nihon shakai no kaimei (an ...

Toyo Keizai (1981)

Robert C Marshall

Heroes and Hebrews: The Priest in the Promised Land

American Ethnologist (1979)

Robert C Marshall

That the literature of the Old Testament provides fertile ground for structural analysis is well known. Leach (1969), Douglas (1966), ...

Cooperation in Economy and Society

Robert C. Marshall

The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation ...

Collective Decision Making in Rural Japan

Robert C Marshall

Contribution to Book

Cooperation in Social and Economic Life (2010)

Robert C Marshall

Interest in human cooperation among anthropologists, political scientists, economists, evolutionary psychologists, and biologists has recently taken off. This strong interdisciplinary ...

Contribution to Book

The Emergence of Worker Co-operatives in Japan among Middle Aged ...

Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2006)

Robert C Marshall