Fiona Graham

Fiona Graham is an anthropologist, producer and director of anthropological documentaries. She has worked on a number of programmes for NHK as well as National Geographic, Channel 4, and BBC.

She has a D. Phil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, and an M.B.A. from the same. Her first degrees in psychology and teaching were taken at Keio University.cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/australian-academic-is-a-geisha-down-to-a-tea/2008/01/07/1199554571282.html |title=Australian academic is a geisha down to a tea |author=Ryall, Julian and Norrie, Justin|date=2008-01-08|publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald] She has done fieldwork in Japanese companies, in Tokyo’s night world, with Japanese traditional sports teams, and in the world of anime and popular culture.

In 2007, Fiona became the first academic to undergo the full training to become a traditional geisha, where she was the first white woman ever to be admitted.

elected Works

*cite book|title=A Japanese Company in Crisis: Ideology, Strategy, and Narrative (Contemporary Japan)|author=Graham, Fiona|date=May 19, 2005|publisher=Routledge-Curzon|isbn=978-0415346856
*cite book|title=Playing At Politics: An Ethnography of the Oxford Union|author=Graham, Fiona|month=September | year=2005|publisher=Dunedin Academic Press|isbn=978-1903765524
*cite book|title=Inside the Japanese Company|author=Graham, Fiona|date=September 11, 2003|publisher=Routledge-Curzon|isbn=978-0415306706

References

External links

* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/turning-japanese-the-first-foreign-geisha-773167.html Turning Japanese: the first foreign geisha (The Independent, 24.1.08)]
* [http://www.sayuki.net/ Sayuki.net - Fiona Graham's Geisha website]
* [http://jasgp.org/content/view/680/179/ Gaijin Geisha & Co.] Article - Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia