Chika Watanabe

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Chika Watanabe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. Her dissertation looks at how a Shinto-based Japanese NGO strives to create certain forms of persons and notions of community through agricultural and "spiritual" trainings in the ambiguous space between "the religious" and "the secular."