RAZ, Aviad E.

PERSONAL: Male.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel 84105. E-mail—aviadraz@bgumail.bgu.ac.il.

CAREER: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel, senior lecturer in behavioral sciences.

WRITINGS:

Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1999.

Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 2002.

The Gene and the Genie: Tradition, Medicalization, and Genetic Counseling in a Bedouin Community in Israel, Carolina Academic Press (Durham, NC), 2003.

Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Popular Culture and Ageing and Society.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on community genetics and the interplay between the biomedical culture of genetic counseling and the local social world of people in counseling.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

American Journal of Sociology, November, 1999, Gary Alan Fine, review of Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, p. 884.

Choice, October, 1999, M. Y. Rynn, review of Riding the Black Ship, p. 371; January, 2003, L. Braude, review of Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America, p. 864.

Contemporary Sociology, March, 2003, Yuko Ogasawara, review of Emotions at Work, pp. 198-199.

Journal of Asian Studies, May, 2000, William W. Kelly, review of Riding the Black Ship, p. 441.