Area of Interest:

Architecture, Art and Aesthetics, Religious Landscapes, Japan

Education:

Research & Activities:

Research: Kamakura and Kyoto, Japan (1985-1986; 1998). Research on temple architecture and gardens in several Zen Buddhist temples. Research in the New Territories and southern China (1986) on the influence of Chinese feng shui on the spatial structure and symbolic form of temple gardens in Kamakura-period (1185-1333) Japan. Presently completing a monograph and a series of historically-oriented articles on Tenryu temple (Temple of the Celestial Dragon) and garden, in Kyoto, and Zuisen temple (Temple of the Abundant Flowing Spring) and garden, Kyoto.

Courses Taught: (Spring) Anthropology 123 (old ANTH 23), Habitat and Humanity; Anthropology 438 (old ANTH 138), Concepts of Nature: Cross Cultural Perspectives; Anthropology 434 (old ANTH 134/Folklore 134), Art and Culture; Anthropology 586 (old ANTH196/ASIA 196), The Gardens, Shrines, and Temples of Japan.

Courses Taught:

Anth 123 ( Habitat and Humanity ) =
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2003fall/anth/023/001/

Anth 434 (Art, Myth, and Nature) =
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2005ss2/anth/134/001/"

Anth 438/HNRS 438H (Concepts of Nature) =
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2005spring/hnrs/027/001/

Anth 586 (Gardens, Shrines, and Temples of Japan) =
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2003spring/anth/196/001/

Selected Publications:

2009 "Tenryu-ji: The Life of a Kyoto Garden." Albany: Stonebridge Press

2004 "The Spiral Designs of Nature, and Craft." IN The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience. Pp. 74-82.
New York: Lark Books.

2003 "Mountain Temple, and the Design of Movement: 13th Century Japanese Zen Buddhist Landscapes."
In Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion.
Michel Conan, editor. Pp. 157-185. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.

2001 "Gardens of the Heart." Parabola 26(1):29-35.

2000 "Indigenous Architecture in Borneo: Traditional Patterns and New Developments." American Ethnologist 27(2):554-556.

1999 "A Song of Secret Places. Pilgrimage 25:4-10

1994 "Buddhism and the Architectured Ethical Environment: Zuisen Temple and Garden, Kamakura, Japan."
Tradition and Ideology in Building: Temples and Rituals 64:1-31. Berkeley: University of California, Center for Environmental Design Research.

1993 "Cannibals and Culture: The Protoanthropology of Michel de Montaigne." Dialectical Anthropology 18:153-176.

1993 "Muso Kokushi and the Cave in Zuisen Temple, Kamakura, Japan: Buddhist Ethics, Environment, and Behavior." In Environmental Ethics: Discourses and Cultural Traditions. Rana P.B. Singh, editor. Pp. 123-140. Varanasi: The National Geographic Society of India. (concurrently printed as) "Muso Kokushi and the Cave in Zuisen Temple, Kamakura, Japan: Buddhist Ethics, Environment, and Behavior" The National Geographic Journal of India. 39:161-178.

1993 "Zen Buddhist Landscapes and the Idea of Temple: Muso Kokushi and Zuisen-ji, Kamakura, Japan."
Architecture and Behavior 9:213-226.

1992 "Tenryu Temple and Garden: The Evolution of a Religious Landscape in Medieval Japan." Temples in Traditional Environments 49:1-30. Berkeley: University of California. Center for Environmental Design Research.

1991 "Garden as Sacred Space." In The Power of Place. James Swan, editor. Pp. 167-187. Wheaton: Quest Books.

1991 "Primordial Image and the Archetypal Design of Art." Journal of Analytical Psychology. 36:371-392.

1991 "Zuisen Temple and Garden, Kamakura, Japan: Design Form and Phylogenetic Meaning." Journal of Garden History. 10:214-236.

1990 "Art and the Meaning of Things." Reviews in Anthropology. 17:221-234.