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Jennifer L. Anderson

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Ph.D. Stanford - 1986

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Dr. Anderson’s interests include traditional Japanese culture, ethnohistory, nutritional anthropology, religion and ritual, culture change, the aesthetics and technology of Japanese ceramics, and the anthropology of art. She is the author of Introduction to Japanese Tea Ritual (SUNY Press, 1991). Her interests, particularly in food and culture, have led her to travel widely in Asia. She has conducted research in Taiwan, Mongolia, and Japan.


Office: CH-461

Phone: (408) 924-5561

Email:
   Jennifer.Anderson@sjsu.edu

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Dr. Anderson has been studying Japanese tea ritual for more than twenty years. She has been awarded junkyoju (the rank of assistant professor) at Urasenke, a four hundred year old tea lineage headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. She teaches Tea weekly and enjoys making traditional Japanese sweets and ceramics for use in tea ceremonies.