Liza Dalby

Liza Crihfield Dalby is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. Her book Geisha (filmed as American Geisha) is based on her experiences with the geisha community in Kyoto's Pontoch?.

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American - Anthropologist - Japanese culture - American Geisha - Geisha - Kyoto - Pontoch?

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Her other books include Kimono: Fashioning Culture, a history of the symbolism and cultural meaning of kimono in Japanese culture; and a novel The Tale of Murasaki, the fictionalized account of the life of Murasaki Shikibu. She served as a consultant for the 2005 movie Memoirs of a Geisha starring Zhang Ziyi.

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Kimono - Murasaki Shikibu - Memoirs of a Geisha - Zhang Ziyi

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She is a graduate of Swarthmore and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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Swarthmore - Stanford University

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