ann-elise lewallen is completing postdoctoral research on Ainu ecotourism at Hokkaido University and from January 2009 will be Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has authored “Bones of Contention: Negotiating Anthropological Ethics within Fields of Ainu Refusal” which was included in Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography (Routledge 2009). She may be contacted at dantyllewes@gmail.com.