Fiona Graham

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Fiona Graham is an anthropologist, producer and director of anthropological documentaries. She has worked on a number of programmes for NHK as well as National Geographic, Channel 4, and BBC.

She has a D. Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and an M.B.A. from the same. Her first degrees in psychology and teaching were taken at Keio University.[1] She has done fieldwork in Japanese companies, in Tokyo’s night world, with Japanese traditional sports teams, and in the world of anime and popular culture.

In 2007, Fiona became the first academic to undergo the full training to become a traditional geisha, where she was the first white woman ever to be admitted.[1]

[edit] Selected Works

  • Graham, Fiona (May 19, 2005). A Japanese Company in Crisis: Ideology, Strategy, and Narrative (Contemporary Japan). Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 978-0415346856. 
  • Graham, Fiona (September 2005). Playing At Politics: An Ethnography of the Oxford Union. Dunedin Academic Press. ISBN 978-1903765524. 
  • Graham, Fiona (September 11, 2003). Inside the Japanese Company. Routledge-Curzon. ISBN 978-0415306706. 


[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Ryall, Julian and Norrie, Justin. "Australian academic is a geisha down to a tea", The Sydney Morning Herald, January 8, 2008. 

[edit] External links

Turning Japanese: the first foreign geisha (The Independent, 24.1.08)

Sayuki.net - Fiona Graham's Geisha website