Page numbers in italics refer to figures and tables.

3 Ks (kitsui, kiken, kitanai), 138

Abraham, 8

Abrahamic, 8

African, 5, 8, 10, 12, 182

American, 276

blood, 12

Aliança, São Paulo, Brazil, 56–57, 59–61, 63, 68, 71, 79

Ambon, 252

American Anthropological Association, 6–7, 10, 313

Anderson, Benedict, 151

anime, 251

aoi me no hito (blue-eyed people), 6

Appadurai, Arjun, 135, 154, 181, 227

arisan (an Indonesian self-support group of relatives and neighbors), 251–252, 254

Asia, xvii, 5, 13, 24, 33, 35–38, 40–43, 45, 111, 125, 181, 188, 192, 213, 232, 239, 270, 278–279

East Asia, 40, 239, 313

South Asia, 276

Southeast Asia, xvii, 33, 36, 42, 45, 220

Asian(s)

American(s), 35, 229

East Asian(s), 5, 13, 220, 239

studies, 220, 232

Atarashiki-mura (A New Village), 55–56, 79

automobile(s), xx, 264–267, 286, 286

Aztec, 151

Banton, Michael, 4, 6–8, 11

Barth, Fredrik, 134–135, 137, 154

baseball, 58–62, 72, 79, 275

Batak, 243, 250, 252–254, 256

Japanese-Batak, 243

Toba-Batak, 253, 256

Bellah, Robert, 151

big-nosed people. See hana no takai-hito

biwa (string instrument), 216

biy (beautician), 218–219, 223

black. See skin color

identity. See identity/identities

blue-eyed people. See aoi me no hito

bo-go (mother language), 93–94

bo-koku-go (national language), 93–94, 98

bo-kokugo (mother-national-language), 98

Bon festival, 246, 256

Bourdieu, Pierre, 17, 182

Brah, Avtar, 229

Brazil, xvii, xix, xxi, 9–10, 14–15, 17–18, 23, 25, 35, 40, 54–57, 59–65, 69–71, 75, 79–80, 82, 82, 82, 157, 169, 175, 180, 193–205, 283