Background
Karen Ann Smyers was born on October 31, 1954, in Massachusetts, United States.
10 Elm Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
Karen Ann Smyers attended Smith College, where, in 1976, she received a Bachelor of Arts.
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Karen attended Middlebury College in 1983.
2-3-1 Misaki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan 101-8375
From 1984 to 1985, Karen studied at Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, Japan.
Princeton, NJ 08544
In 1989, Karen received a Master of Arts in anthropology from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Japanese religions and culture, in 1993.
(The deity Inari has been worshipped in Japan since at lea...)
The deity Inari has been worshipped in Japan since at least the early eighth century and today is a revered presence in such varied venues as Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, factories, theaters, private households, restaurants, beauty shops, and rice fields. Although at first glance and to its many devotees Inari worship may seem to be a unified phenomenon, it is in fact exceedingly multiple, noncodified, and noncentralized.
https://www.amazon.com/Fox-Jewel-Meanings-Contemporary-Japanese/dp/0824821025/?tag=2022091-20
1999
Karen Ann Smyers was born on October 31, 1954, in Massachusetts, United States.
Karen Ann Smyers attended Smith College, where, in 1976, she received a Bachelor of Arts. She also attended Middlebury College in 1983, and Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, Japan, from 1984 to 1985. In 1989, Karen received a Master of Arts in anthropology from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Japanese religions and culture, in 1993.
After receiving her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Princeton University, she taught in the Religion Department at Wesleyan University for 8 years offering such courses as “Death and the Afterlife in World Cultures,” “Magic, Science, and Religion,” and “Imagining the Other: Alterity Theory in Religious and Anthropological Perspective.” Her book, The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Japanese Inari Worship, was published by the University of Hawai'i Press in 1999.
From 1976 to 1977, Karen Ann Smyers was a personal assistant at the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations in Washington, DC. In 1977, she worked as a researcher at Washington Service Bureau at Capitol Hill and Federal Agency Research Department in Washington, DC. At the Office of Congressman James M. Jeffords in Washington, DC, she was a legislative assistant in 1978.
From 1978 to 1980, Karen worked as an assistant for administration to the dean of the college at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusets, and, from 1980 to 1981, she was an English teacher at Doshisha Girls’ High School in Kyoto, Japan. At the Kyoto Women’s University and Bukkyo University, Karen was a lecturer in English from 1981 to 1983. At Princeton University she was a preceptor from 1986 to 1990, and then, became a lecturer in religion in 1992.
In 1993, Smyers worked as assistant director and professor of anthropology at the EAGLE Program. The same year, she was an assistant professor of religion at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Karen Ann Smyers was also a speaker at colleges and universities, including Hobogirin Institute in 1990, and at Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in 1991. In 1994 and 2000, she also was a speaker at Columbia University, also at Smith College from 1994 to 1996, and the University of Michigan in 1996. In 1975, Karen was a volunteer at the archaeological site in Tell el Hesi, Israel, and was a member of the Japan-China educational exchange with China in 1981.
Karen has moved her private practice from Zürich to Northampton, Massachusetts. She is a member of the international Jungian associations IAAP and AGAP (see "Links"), and the New England Society of Jungian Analysts (NESJA). From April 2009 to December 2011 she served as the President of the Jung Center of Western Massachusetts.
(The deity Inari has been worshipped in Japan since at lea...)
1999Karen Ann Smyers was a member of the American Anthropological Association, American Academy of Religion, Association for Asian Studies and Connecticut Association for Jungian Psychology.