This presentation examines how Micronesian people have perceived their experiences of colonization by the Empire of Japan since the end of World War II. Specifically, through the analysis of the activity of Palau Sakura Kai (Palau Cherry Blossoms Association), it will be made clear how Japanese Palauan have reconstructed the relationship with Japanese returnees and constructed their identity.
After WWI, Western Samoa was put under the trusteeship of New Zealand, and almost all the racial strategy of Germans was adopted by the New Zealand colonial government. It is clear that the racial categorization involved a lot of social factors, while the physical factors were not necessarily identified with the categorization. Nevertheless, it was the racial categorization that constituted colonial Samoa, although it became very important to create a homogeneous nation to be independent.
We will argue that an occupational or professional group whose purpose is "to work" for the protection and operational use of heritage. We will focus specifically on the group "House of Park" in Natural Regional Park in France. Based on staff interviews, we will analyze the meaning of their activities from the viewpoint of their daily lives.
This paper considers the relationship between the production of Turkish "homeland" and material remains found in Anatolia, which include not straightforwardly associated with "Turkish" nationhood. Focusing on the role of "heritage" in the process of producing Turkish "homeland", this paper explores diverse approaches to ancient Anatolian pasts, and reveals a heterogeneous quality in linking Anatolian pasts with the construction of Anatolia as the Turkish "homeland".
In the process of rapid globalization, socio-cultural communality is more likely to be dismantled and replaced with more fluid, flexible and fragmented relations. They were once prized as alternative/resistant identity but now function as the control device of the neo-liberal governmentality. This session tries to consider how we could shape anthropological practices in this critical situation.
As a legacy of the Muluki Ain, a Nepalese caste system has been observed in Pokhara. Under the present Shastra polity, the Thakalis
and other Matwari Minorities are the socially vulnerable in Nepal, but they have made a great contribution to the development of touritst industry in Pokhara. There must be some reasons why they
have made it.
Who trains the sports coaches who in turn train Japanese athletes? In this presentation, I will consider the cultural characteristics of Japanese sports while describing the process of coach training. Towards that end, I am currently carrying out observational fieldwork at a Kanto Area Private University Sports Club, and this presentation will be use the data which I have acquired from this fieldwork.
In this presentation, I will introduce my research on the linguistic conflicts manager women encounter in Japan and the strategies they adopt to resolve them, to help understand the new reality women have to face in entering formally masculine spheres of activities and rising in those hierarchies. Therefore, I will present my one-year fieldwork in four big enterprises, data and ongoing analysis.