Christopher T. Nelson

Christopher T. Nelson is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches about Japanese society and contemporary global capitalism. A former Marine infantry officer, he has been conducting ethnographic research in Okinawa for the past twenty years.

Nelson's broader research interests include the relationship between history and memory; the critical study of everyday life; storytelling, ritual and performance; value, exhange and sacrifice.