Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Japan
Occupation
Owner, The Word Works, Ltd.
Industry
Advertising / Marketing / PR
Website
About
A boy grew up in Tidewater, Virginia in the USA, studied philosophy in college and then got a Ph.D. in anthropology (Cornell, 1973), for a dissertation on the symbolism of Daoist magic. Failing to get tenure in his first academic job, he followed his wife, a graduate student in Japanese literature at Yale, to Japan in 1980. To make a long story short, he found work in the fringes of the Japanese advertising world and in 1983 was hired by Hakuhodo, Japan's 2nd largest advertising company, as an English language copywriter. After leaving Hakuhodo in 1996, he joined his sagacious spouse as co-owner and partner in The Word Works, Ltd., a supplier of fine translation and copywriting services t...
Contact Details
Tags
ethnography
social
japan
ad:
sna
anthropology
social network analysis
creatives
advertising
winners
contest
analysis
network
industry
tokyo
history
p-cores
networks
her
pajek
bmw
coca-cola
pierre bourdieu
victor turner
writing culture
china anthropology
nthu
business anthropology
archival data
trade press
business
creative
creativity
ethnographic involution
japanese advertising
mathematics and hermeneutics
simple techniques
See more
Users being followed by John McCreery