John Willis Traphagan

Who is John Willis Traphagan?

John Willis Traphagan is Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology and Centennial Commission in the Liberal Arts Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Traphagan's research has largely focused on rural Japan, with most of his research conducted in Iwate Prefecture. He has published extensively on ethnography, aging, health, and ritual in rural Japan, and also writes on globalization and internal migration. In 2010 he was elected Secretary General of the Japan Anthropology Workshop, the world's largest organization of anthropologists working on Japan.