Miyako Inoue

Miyako Inoue (born 1962) is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She received her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. She is a prominent linguistic anthropologist who combines a concerted focus on social theory with a rigorous analysis of language in social life. Inoue teaches linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of Japan.