Department of Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology

Merry White`s interests include population issues and social policy in Japan, the social and cultural construction of age stages in Japan, education, food and change in global contexts and the anthropology of travel and tourism. Her most recent publication is Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval (2002) and she is currently engaged in a study of the social history of the cafe as an urban social space in Japan, from about 1912 to the present.

For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/faculty/mwhite/index.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Modern Japanese Society: Family, School, and Workplace (CAS AN 344)
Moving Experiences: Cultures of Tourism and Travel (CAS AN 345)
Food, Culture, and Society (CAS AN 308)
Asian Development: The Case of Women (CAS AN 505)
           
Graduate:
Modern Japanese Society: Family, School, and Workplace (GRS AN 744)
Moving Experiences: Cultures of Tourism and Travel (CAS AN 745)