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John Traphagan

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#556

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Cultural Anthropology

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#144

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#66

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Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, John Willis Traphagan is professor emeritus of Human Dimensions of Organizations and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin and a visiting professor at the Center for International Education at Waseda University. Traphagan's research has largely focused on rural Japan, with most of his research conducted in Iwate Prefecture. He has published extensively on science and culture, aging, health, and life in rural Japan. In the late 2000s, he developed a second stream of research focused on the culture and ethics of space exploration. He has made significant contributions in the study of risk associated with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective (2005) (569)
Spirituality in Physical Health and Aging (2000) (145)
DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND THE FAMILY IN JAPAN'S AGING SOCIETY (2003) (77)
taming oblivion aging bodies and the fear of senility in japan (2000) (49)
Cultural Factors in Dementia: Perspectives from the Anthropology of Aging (2005) (38)
FAST FOOD AND INTERGENERATIONAL COMMENSALITY IN JAPAN: NEW STYLES AND OLD PATTERNS (2002) (36)
Localizing senility: Illness and agency among older Japanese (1998) (35)
The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan (2004) (28)
Culture and Long-Term Care: The Bath as Social Service in Japan (2004) (28)
Interpretations of elder suicide, stress, and dependency among rural Japanese (2004) (27)
Introduction: Aging in Asia—Perennial Concerns on Support and Caring for the Old (2006) (27)
Contesting the transition to old age in Japan (1998) (25)
The Liminal Family: Return Migration and Intergenerational Conflict in Japan (2000) (24)
Rethinking Autonomy: A Critique of Principlism in Biomedical Ethics (2012) (23)
Senility as disintegrated person in Japan (2002) (22)
Anthropology of Sport (2015) (20)
Imagined families, lived families : culture and kinship in contemporary Japan (2008) (19)
Power, Family, and Filial Responsibility Related to Elder Care in Rural Japan (2006) (16)
Older Women as Caregivers and Ancestral Protection in Rural Japan (2003) (15)
Reproducing elder male power through ritual performance in Japan (2000) (15)
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination: SETI at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Culture (2014) (14)
Changes in college students' perceptions of use of web-based resources for academic tasks with Wikipedia projects: a preliminary exploration (2014) (12)
Intergenerational Ambivalence, Power, and Perceptions of Elder Suicide in Rural Japan (2010) (12)
Reasons for gateball participation among older Japanese (1998) (11)
Group Homes for Elders With Dementia in Japan (2008) (11)
Science, Culture and the Search for Life on Other Worlds (2016) (10)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Realpolitik Consideration (2020) (10)
Interpreting Senility: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (2005) (10)
Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice (2006) (9)
Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination (2015) (8)
Reviewing Japanese Concepts of Amae and Ie to Deeper Understand the Relevance of Secure-Base Behavior in the Context of Japanese Caregiver-Child Interactions (2015) (8)
The Great Colonization Debate (2019) (8)
Constraint, Power, and Intergenerational Discontinuity in Japan (2008) (8)
Equating culture, civilization, and moral development in imagining extraterrestrial intelligence: anthropocentric assumptions? (2016) (6)
The Practice of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Japan (2006) (6)
Cargo Cults and the Ethics of Active SETI (2018) (6)
In the shadow of obasuteyama : old age and the disembodiment of social values in a Japanese town (1997) (5)
Which humanity would space colonization save? (2019) (5)
From Socially Weak to Potential Consumer: Changing Discourses on Elder Status in South Korea (2009) (5)
Independence, Security, and the Intergenerational Social Contract: Home-Helper Services and Elder Care in Rural Japan (2003) (5)
Active SETI and the Problem of Research Ethics (2018) (5)
The Oddness of Things: Morality Games and Interpretations of Social Change Among Elders in Rural Japan (2009) (5)
Altruism, Pathology, and Culture (2011) (4)
A Fool's Errand? (2011) (4)
Toward sustainable cities : readings in the anthropology of urban environments (1998) (4)
First, Do Nothing: A Passive Protocol for First Contact (2020) (4)
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies (2001) (4)
The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth: SETI in non-Western perspective (2015) (4)
A preliminary exploration of attitudes about COVID-19 among a group of older people in Iwate Prefecture, Japan (2021) (4)
BEYOND RELATIVISM AND FOUNDATIONALISM: A PROLEGOMENON TO FUTURE RESEARCH IN ETHICS (1994) (4)
Ethnocultural Contextualization of Dementia Care: Cross-Cultural Perceptions on the Notion of Self (2015) (3)
Should We Lie to Extraterrestrials? A Critique of the Voyager Golden Records (2021) (3)
Editor's note: Change in editorship (2002) (3)
New Directions for Care Management Journals (2016) (2)
Entrepreneurs in rural Japan: gender, blockage, and the pursuit of existential meaning (2017) (2)
SETI, Evolutionary Eschatology, and the Star Trek Imaginary (2021) (2)
Religion, Science, and Space Exploration from a Non-Western Perspective (2020) (2)
Deconstructing the Rio Scale: problems of subjectivity and generalization (2019) (2)
Negotiating the afterlife: emplacement as ongoing concern in contemporary Japan (2014) (2)
Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming of Person and Place (review) (2005) (2)
Ancestors, burial rites, and rural depopulation in Japan (2008) (2)
Aging in Asian Societies: Perspectives From Recent Qualitative Research (2007) (1)
Irony and the Sociocultural Construction of Old Age in South Korea: Perspectives From Government, the Medical Profession, and the Aged (2010) (1)
Mental Health, Suicide, and Self-Centered Behavior: Focus on the Japanese Family and the Elderly (2013) (1)
Extraterrestrial altruism: Evolution and ethics in the cosmos (2017) (1)
Protocols for encounter with extraterrestrials: Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic (2020) (1)
CARGOISM AND SCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION IN THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (2019) (1)
Knowledge Production in the Encounter with Alien Others (2016) (1)
Religion, Science, Culture, and SETI (2015) (1)
Ritual, meaningfulness, and interstellar message construction (2010) (0)
Suicide and Older Adults in Postdisaster Northeastern Japan (2013) (0)
Notes on contributors (2003) (0)
Religion in Japanese Daily Life by David C. Lewis (review) (2020) (0)
The W&T Realpolitik Scenario and Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Reply to Wright et al. (2023) (0)
Dogs, Chimps, Humans, and Alien Intelligence (2016) (0)
Change in Editorial Staff (2014) (0)
Thinking About Religion and Science (2015) (0)
The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology (2015) (0)
Science and the Emergence of SETI (2016) (0)
Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan (2006) (0)
Introduction to Research Forum (2003) (0)
Who Should Speak for the Earth? (2021) (0)
Second Life and Access for the Disabled and Homebound (2014) (0)
Olson, Valerie. Into the extreme: US environmental systems and politics beyond Earth. x, 290 pp., illus., bibliogr. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2018. £20.99 (paper) (2021) (0)
Hyunsook Yoon and Jon Hendricks, Handbook of Asian Aging (2008) (0)
Family Change and Housing in Post-War Japanese Society: The Experiences of Older Women . By Misa Izuhara. Aldershot, Hants; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000. ix, 187 pp. $64.95 (cloth). (2003) (0)
Science and SETI (2016) (0)
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger:The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging: Life Course and Personal Destiny in Niger. (2000) (0)
Can ritual represent a means of communication with ET (2009) (0)
Messeri, Lisa. Placing outer space: an earthly ethnography of other worlds. x, 238 pp., illus., figs, bibliogr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2016. £19.99 (paper): Book reviews (2018) (0)
Lawrence Cohen, No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998, XXVI + 367 pages. (1999) (0)
Contestating the Transition to Old Age in Japan: 2104 (1998) (0)
Contesting Masculinity and Ritual Embodiment in Youth Baseball (2021) (0)
Book review (2021) (0)
12 Being a Good Rōjin: Senility, Power, and Self-Actualization in Japan (2020) (0)
A Brief History of Thinking About ETI (2015) (0)
The Poetics and Politics of Tuareg Aging (Book Review). (2000) (0)
A Brief History of Imagining Life on Other Worlds (2016) (0)
Science, Culture, and SETI (2016) (0)
Are We Alone? The Emergence of SETI (2015) (0)
4. Generations Apart (2020) (0)
Almost all of them married early and were housewives staying at home with small children by the time of the final survey. Quite a few of the girls in bet- (2006) (0)
Reviewing Japanese Concepts of Amae and Ie to Deeper Understand the Relevance of Secure-Base Behavior in the Context of Japanese Caregiver-Child Interactions (2015) (0)
Culture, Intelligence, and ETI (2015) (0)
Reinventing rurality (2020) (0)
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the U.S.: Practices and Policies . Edited by Susan Orpett Long. London: Routledge, 2000. xviii, 358 pp. $100.00 (cloth). (2001) (0)
Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan . Edited by Susan Orpett Long. Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 1999. xii, 295 pp. $29.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). (2002) (0)
Disability in Japan by Carolyn S. Stevens (review) (2015) (0)

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