Joshua H. Roth

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Email: jroth@mtholyoke.edu

Office: Merrill House, Room 203

Tel: 413-538-2954

Books:

Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2002. Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Winner of the 2004 Book Award in Social Science from the Association for Asian American Studies. Articles: Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2007. "Adopting to Inequality: Negotiating Nikkei Identity in Contexts of Return." In Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory, edited by Charles Stewart. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2006. "A Mean Spirited Sport: Japanese Brazilian Croquet in Sao Paulo's Public Spaces." Anthropological Quarterly, v. 79, n. 4 (Fall): 609-632. Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2005. "Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan's Insider Minorities" (expanded version) Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific e-journal.

Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2005. "Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan's Insider Minorities." In A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, edited by Jennifer Robertson. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2003. "Urashima Taro's Ambiguating Practices: The Significance of Overseas Voting Rights for Elderly Japanese Migrants to Brazil." In Searching for Home Abroad, edited by Jeffrey Lesser. Durham: Duke University Press.

Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2002. "Responsibility and the Limits of Identification." In Fieldwork in Japan, edited by Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor. Honolulu: Hawaii University Press.

Translations:

Roth, Joshua Hotaka. 2003. "Transformations in the Identity of Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil" [Burajiru ni okeru okinawakeijin no aidenteitei no henyo katei], by Mori Koichi. In Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and the Transnational Moment, edited by Jeffrey Lesser. Durham: Duke University Press.