Office: WCH 5.120A
jtraphagan@mail.utexas.edu

Additional affiliations: Department of Asian Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Population Research Center, Religious Studies

Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Research interests:
Sport and Culture, Aging, Health, Suicide, Ritual, Food, Japan, Self, Identity and Body

Methodological Interests: interdisciplinary approaches to combining and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data

Field(s) of Study: Social AnthropologyAdditional field(s) of study: Medical Anthropology

Recent Publications:
Books

Thompson, C. S. and J. W. Traphagan (eds.). 2006. Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity in Practice. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Traphagan, J. W. 2004. The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.

Traphagan, J. W. and John Knight (eds.) 2003. Demographic Change and the Family in Japan's Aging Society. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Traphagan, J. W. 2000. Taming Oblivion: Aging Bodies and the Fear of Senility in Japan. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Articles

Traphagan, J. W. 2005. Interpreting Senility: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Care Management Journals 6(3):145-150.

Traphagan, J. W. 2005. Heroes of the Antimodern: “Respect for the Elderly Day” and Writing the Narrative of the Elder Generation in Japan. Journal of Ritual Studies 19(2):99-114.

Henderson, J. Neil and J. W. Traphagan. 2005. Cultural Factors in Dementia: Perspectives from the Anthropology of Aging Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders 19(4):272-274.

Traphagan, J. W. 2005. Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/ Spirituality for Use in Health Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Research on Aging 27(4):387-419.

Traphagan, J. W. 2005. Interpretations of Elder Suicide, Stress and Dependency among Rural Japanese. Ethnology 43(4):315-329.

Traphagan, J. W. 2004. Culture and Long Term Care: The Bath as Social Service in Japan. Care Management Journals 5(1): 53-60.

Traphagan, J. W. 2003. Independence, Security, and the Intergenerational Social Contract: Home-Helper Services and Elder Care in Rural Japan. Care Management Journals 4(4):216-222.

Traphagan, J. W. 2003. Older Women as Caregivers and Ancestral Protection in Rural Japan. Ethnology 42(2): 127 - 139.

Traphagan, J. W. and L. K. Brown. 2002. Fast Food and Intergenerational Commensality in Japan: New Styles and Old Patterns. Ethnology 41(2): 119-134.

Traphagan, J. W. 2002. Senility as Disintegrated Person in Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 17: 253-267.

Traphagan, J. W. 2000. The Liminal Family: Return Migration and Intergenerational Conflict in Japan. Journal of Anthropological Research 56: 365-385.

Traphagan, J. W. 2000. Reproducing Elder Male Power through Ritual Performance in Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 15: 81-97.

Musick, Marc, John W. Traphagan, Harold Koenig, David Larson. 2000. Spirituality and Physical Health in Aging. Journal of Adult Development 7(2): 73-86.