Research Achievements - Original paper -

Civic Resistance to Japanese Militarism

Wood, Donald C.

New Politics   52 ( 4 ) 20 - 26   2020.01  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Teaching Medical Anthropology to Future Physicians: Content-based EMP for Cultural Competence, Critical Thinking, and Cosmopolitanism

Donald Wood

Teaching Medical Anthropology to Future Physicians: Content-based EMP for Cultural Competence, Critical Thinking, and Cosmopolitanism     2018.12  [Invited]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Disease is Always Cultural: Medical Anthropology for Future Physicians at Akita University

Donald C. Wood

Journal of Medical English Education   17 ( 1 ) 50 - 58   2018.02  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Photography in the 1930s “Native” Ethnography of Yoshida Saburō: The Eye of the Seikatsu-sha and the Legacy of Shibusawa Keizō’s Attic Museum

Donald C. Wood

Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology   18 ( 1 ) 37 - 68   2017.12  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Large Classes and Great Expectations: Establishing and Evaluating an Integrated, Comprehensive English for Medical Purposes Program for First-Year Medical Students at Akita University.8

Donald C. Wood

Journal of Medical English Education   15 ( 3 ) 154 - 161   2016.11  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Trial and Error, Study and Sweat: Yoshida Saburō’s Smallholding in Northeastern Japan, 1935.

Donald C. Wood

Research in Economic Anthropology   34   235 - 266   2014.11  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Thinking Locally and Acting Globally in Regional Japan: Development with Respect to a Community’s Base.

Donald C. Wood

東北人類学論壇   13   1 - 15   2014.09  [Refereed]  [Invited]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Suicide mortality for young, middle-aged, and elderly persons in the period of Japanese economic transition, 1975-2005

A. Fukuoka, Y. Iwasaki, D.C. Wood, T. Iwata, K. Murata

秋田医学   ? ( ? ) ? - ?   2013.03  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Domestic Co-author

Tremors in the “Contact Zone” and Challenges to Anthropology Following the Great East Japan Earthquake: The View of a Foreign Resident Anthropologist

Donald C. Wood

Asian Anthropology   11 ( 1 ) 39 - 53   2012.11  [Refereed]  [Invited]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck the country on March 11, 2011, there occurred a symbolic colonization of Japan by foreign media and governments – most notably those of the USA – that were eager to provide coverage and analysis (in their own way). As a result, a tense and difficult situation became more stressful and chaotic. This essay, based largely on the author’s own personal observations from relatively safe Akita Prefecture, calls into question the identity of a fairly well-adjusted foreign resident anthropologist who has found himself pinched between his two countries. It also considers the gap between anthropology and mass media.

Economics and Religion, Economics in Religion, Economics of Religion: Reopening the Grounds for Anthropology?

Lionel Obadia and Donald C. Wood

Research in Economic Anthropology   31 ( 1 ) xiii - xxxvii   2011.10

Research paper (journal)   Domestic Co-author

English Textbook Preference among Japanese Medical Students Reconsidered: Textbook Content, Testing, and Student Performance as Factors

Donald C. Wood

Journal of Medical English Education   10 ( 1 ) 20 - 28   2011.02  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

English Textbook Preference among Japanese Medical Students: Textbook Content and Student Motivation

Donald C. Wood

Journal of Medical English Education   8 ( 2 ) 73 - 79   2009.11  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Children as a Common-Pool Resource: Change and the Shrinking Kindergarten Market in a Japanese City

Donald C. Wood

Research in Economic Anthropology   29 ( 1 ) 341 - 379   2009.10  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Japanese preschools have been the subject of extensive ethnographic investigation over the last forty years or more. However, the market for preschools in Japan has received almost no such attention. This market is rapidly changing, for the recent sharp decrease in the number of children in the country has resulted in a growing struggle on the part of kindergartens to attract children, largely by catering to the needs of mothers, for their survival. This chapter, by considering children as a common-pool resource (CPR) for which kindergartens quietly vie with one another, examines the situation in the capital city of Akita Prefecture, and shows how mothers – and also households – have been able to benefit in terms of convenience due to competition among kindergartens for their children.

The Number of Cumulative Infected Individuals in a Society is Independent of Population Size when the Basic Reproductive Number (R₀) is Small - An Estimation of R₀ of Hong Kong SARS 2003

T. Sato, D.C. Wood, M. Katahira and A. Nakamura

Akita Journal of Medicine   35 ( 1 ) 89 - 99   2008.11  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Domestic Co-author

Spontaneous Awakening from Nocturnal Sleep and Cardiac Autonomic Function in Preschool Children

M. Sampei， M. Dakeishi， D.C. Wood， T. Iwata， and K. Murata

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic & Clinical     2007.01

Research paper (journal)   Domestic Co-author

Impact of Total Sleep Duration on Blood Pressure in Preschool Children. Biomedical Research

M. Sanpei， M. Dakeishi， D.C. Wood， and K. Murata

Biomedical Research   27 ( 3 ) 111 - 115   2006.06  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Domestic Co-author

Cardiac Autonomic Hypofunction in Preschool Children with Short Nocturnal Sleep

M. Sanpei， K. Murata， M. Dakeishi， and D.C. Wood

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine   208 ( 3 ) 235 - 242   2006.02  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Domestic Co-author

The Polder Museum of Ogata-mura: Community， Authenticity， and Sincerity in a Japanese Village

Donald C. Wood

Asian Anthropology   4 ( 1 ) 25 - 58   2005.09  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

Fragmented Solidarity: Commercial Farming and Rice Marketing in an Experimental Japanese Village. In Anthropological Perspectives on Economic Development and Integration

Donald C. Wood

Research in Economic Anthropology   22 ( 1 ) 145 - 167   2003.07  [Refereed]  [Invited]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

The argument for the damaging effects of capitalist modes of production on traditional or indigenous communities is convincing, and has been upheld by scholars interested in development issues. Recent research, however, has called for a closer look at the problem. In this paper, a Japanese village that was created by the government for collective rice farming under a state-controlled distribution system is examined in an attempt to discern how a sudden shift to capitalist modes of production and largely uncontrolled marketing changed the social structure of the community. It is argued that the effects of such a shift may actually promote new unions and different kinds of solidarity, even when the overall impression indicates a decline in solidarity.

A Practical Taxonomy of Benches on the Texas A&M University Campus

Donald C. Wood

Teaching Anthropology: The Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges Notes   6 ( 2 ) 33 - 37   2002.03  [Refereed]

Research paper (journal)   Single author

The work that archaeologists do seems very exciting at first glance: going far from home in search of beautiful ancient artifacts, digging them up, sometimes restoring them, and then presenting and interpreting them to the rest of the world. I was led into cultural anthropology through an interest in archaeology. This interest arose out of my fascination with objects and their cultural contexts I was exposed to in art history courses as an art major. In reality,
archaeologists have to devote much of their time to the arduous task of making sense of the materials they obtain in their field excavations, and usually
these are not very exciting to the average person on the street. Making sense of such materials involves sorting and classifying them in some fashion. As an exercise in this, I have sorted and classified a number of benches I documented on the campus of Texas
A&M University (TAMU). Here I present them in one of many possible classificatory systems that could aid a
scientist in analyzing them and determining their cultural context. This system is arbitrary, subjective in terms of its organization but objective in terms
of its categories, and subject to change if new bench types are introduced. This exercise could be used to teach students of anthropology how to handle one important task they will face should they decide to enter the field of archaeology.