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Brian J. McVeigh's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Brian J. McVeigh is a scholar of Asia who specializes in Japanese pop art, education, politics, and history. He is also a theorist of cultural psychology and historical changes in human mentality. He received his doctorate in 1991 from Princeton University's Department of Anthropology. While a graduate student, he studied under Julian Jaynes whose influence is apparent in his research. He taught at the University of Arizona until 2013 and is a licensed mental health counselor. Currently he is researching how a Jaynesian psychology can be developed for therapeutic purposes, as seen in his Self-healing Mind: Harnessing the Active Ingredients of Psychotherapy.

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Brian J. McVeigh's Published Works

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Japanese Higher Education As Myth (2002) (278)
How Hello Kitty Commodifies the Cute, Cool and Camp (2000) (104)
Wearing Ideology: State, Schooling and Self-Presentation in Japan (2000) (100)
Nationalisms of Japan: Managing and Mystifying Identity (2003) (92)
Commodifying Affection, Authority and Gender in the Everyday Objects of Japan (1996) (59)
The Nature of the Japanese State: Rationality and Rituality (1998) (52)
Life in a Japanese Women's College: Learning to be Ladylike (1997) (52)
Foreign Language Instruction in Japanese Higher Education (2004) (47)
The State Bearing Gifts: Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education (2006) (30)
Standing stomachs, clamoring chests and cooling livers : Metaphors in the psychological lexicon of Japanese (1996) (17)
Linking state and self : How the Japanese state bureaucratizes subjectivity through moral education (1998) (15)
Wearing Ideology: How Uniforms Discipline Minds and Bodies in Japan (1997) (14)
Individualization, individuality, interiority, and the Internet: Japanese university students and e-mail BRIAN J . M CV EIGH : Japanese university students and e-mail (2003) (10)
Healthcare in the cloud: the opportunity and the challenge. (2014) (8)
Interpreting Japan: Approaches and Applications for the Classroom (2014) (8)
Multiple Functions in Equivalence Classes (2009) (6)
The Formalized Learning Style of Japanese Students. (1995) (6)
Cultivating “Femininity” and “Internationalism”: Rituals and Routine at a Japanese Women's Junior College (1996) (6)
Spirits, selves, and subjectivity in a Japanese new religion : the cultural psychology of belief in shūkyō Mahikari (1997) (6)
“Guiding” Japan’s university students through the generation gap (2004) (4)
Gratitude, obedience, and humility of heart : the cultural construction of belief in a Japanese new religion (1991) (3)
The vitalistic conception of salvation as expressed in Sūkyō Mahikari (1992) (3)
How Religion Evolved: Explaining the Living Dead, Talking Idols, and Mesmerizing Monuments (2016) (2)
Reply To Kinsella (1997) (1997) (2)
The History of Japanese Psychology: Global Perspectives, 1875-1950 (2016) (2)
Learning morality through sentiment and the senses : the role of emotional experience in Sūkyō Mahikari (1995) (1)
Post‐Compulsory Schooling and the Legacy of Imperialism (2007) (1)
History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life, by Harry Harootunian. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, 182 pp., $24.50 (hardback ISBN 0-231-11794-9) (2004) (1)
6 Countering the Official Code by Consuming Cuteness (2000) (1)
GRATITUDE, OBEDIENCE, AND HUMILITY OF HEART:THE MORALITY OF DEPENDENCY IN A NEW RELIGION (1991) (1)
Spirit possession in Sūkyō Mahikari : A variety of sociopsychological experience (1996) (1)
From Revelation to Reasoning (2017) (0)
1 Introduction: Approaches and Definitions (2000) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1995) (0)
Prayers, Possessions, and Prophecies: Conjuring Up the Missing Gods (2017) (0)
When the Gods Still Whisper: Strange Behaviors Explained (2017) (0)
Note to the Reader (2000) (0)
Notes on contributors (1980) (0)
The Self-Healing Mind (2022) (0)
4 Patterns and Practices of Dress Uniformity (2000) (0)
Imagining the Transcendent: A New Cognitive Ability (2017) (0)
Talking Idols: Tools of Divine Control (2017) (0)
Okada, Akito. Education and equal opportunity in Japan. xvi, 197 pp., tables, figs, bibliogr. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. £45.00 (cloth) (2013) (0)
感謝,素直,心の下座--新宗教における「依存の道義」〔英文〕 (1991) (0)
Dressed in Time (2022) (0)
5 Wearing Ideology and the Cult of Cuteness (2000) (0)
Introcosm: A New World of Space and Time (2017) (0)
Towns as the Domain of the Gods (2017) (0)
Japan on the couch (2012) (0)
Spirit possession: A variety of sociopsychological behavior: (719122011-033) (1995) (0)
Trimming the Theological Tree: Monotheism as Adaptation (2017) (0)
Why the Gods Began to Speak (2017) (0)
The Living Dead: Explaining Entombment and Ancestor Worship (2017) (0)
Heavenly Ambassadors: God–Kings and Sacred Rulers (2017) (0)
The Axial Age: The World Reborn without Gods (2017) (0)
Mesoamerica: Theocentric Civilizations of the New World (2017) (0)
3 Learning to Wear Ideology: School Uniforms (2000) (0)
Book reviews (2003) (0)
Primary school in Japan: self, individuality and learning in elementary education – By Peter Cave (2009) (0)
MUlTiPle FUNcTio Ns i N eq UiValeNce classes (2009) (0)
Mental Imagery and Hallucinations as Adaptive Behavior (2013) (0)
Temples as Relay Stations: Transmitting Divine Commands (2017) (0)
Japan's Reluctant Globalization (2020) (0)
The Self Replaces the Gods (2017) (0)
Beyond the State as “Black Box”: Anti-Base Movements (2014) (0)
2 The Dramaturgical Approach: Linking Subjectivity, Self-Presentation and the State (2000) (0)
The Gods Depart: The Late-Bronze-Period Dark Ages (2017) (0)
Nation and Nationalism in Japan . Edited by Sandra Wilson. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. x, 217 pp. $114.95 (cloth). (2005) (0)
Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States (review) (2010) (0)
7 Final Thoughts: The Political Economics of Self-Presentation, Individuality and Individualization (2000) (0)
Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan (review) (2006) (0)
Angels, Divine Messengers, and Swarms of Demons (2017) (0)
Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific by Christine R. Yano (review) (2014) (0)
Character goods, cheerfulness and cuteness : ‘Consumutopian’ spaces as communicative media (2018) (0)
Appendix B: Uchino Michiko's 1995 Questionnaires about Student Uniforms (2000) (0)
The Failure of Science to Explain Religion (2017) (0)
A Change of Mind in the Ancient World (2017) (0)
Ancient Civilizations as God-Governed (2017) (0)
Appendix A: Surveys about Uniforms (2000) (0)
Mortuary Monuments: How the Gods Awed Their Followers (2017) (0)
Divine Voices and Visions as Social Adaptation (2017) (0)

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