This study examines the formative process of communities of Itoman fishermen in Okinawa: demonstrating what kind of social order has been made, and how they have accomplished it. Thereby shedding light on their higher degree of disposition to settlement contrary to many other fishing people in East and Southeast Asia, and I will advance an Okinawan cultural model of social order formation by migrants.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the process of changing in local fishing village through land reclamations of seacoasts as modern public power in South Korea. I will give two cases: Gewha land reclamation project and Semangum land reclamation project. I will discuss these effects of sea and village over half a century.
Animal-killings are considered to just a part of food procurement. I will show a variety of animal-killing and non-killing behaviors among the Baka and the Bakwele of southeastern Cameroon. The logic observed is different from "law of the jungle". For example people kill elephant, but they don't kill centipedes. Logic and ethics of decision making on animal-killing should be attacked further in future.
After the two years from the occurrence of the Great East Japan Earthquake, cultural promotions in the affected areas are growing in importance. This presentation focuses on the preservation and use of the lessons of the large-scale disaster from the perspective of public anthropology. The research is conducted in the accordance with an NGO's project on creation of 3.11 disaster folklores.
This session is an exercise in the anthropology of anthropologists living in Japan. Five foreign-trained anthropologists examine how we live our personal lives at home, at school, at workplace, and in the neighborhood. The main questions are: Does being an anthropologist or thinking anthropologically influence our lives? And, does our daily living have any impact on the way we practice anthropology?
This paper reflexively examines an anthropological life in and of Japan. The analysis, clearly micro in scope, dodges the critique of being 'narcissistic' through situating the discussion within recent theorizations of the cosmopolitan subject; what Ulrich Beck has called the "Cosmopolitan Moment"or uncontrollable risk and irony and what Nigel Rapport has coined the anthropology of "Anyone". The presentation is conducted in a rather "cosmopolitan" version of Japanese
This paper examines my shifting identity and positionality as an anthropologist who is both "native" (I was born to Japanese parents in Sendai, Japan) and "alien" (I spent two years as a child in Buffalo, New York, and five years as a graduate student in anthropology at Michigan State University) to Japanese society. In particular, this paper analyzes my shifting attitude toward Japanese studies.
This presentation explores researcher identity and ambiguity in living and working anthropologically in regional Japan by untangling the connections between the life and writings of Yoshida Saburo in the 1930s and my own, beginning six decades later. Perched on the fringes of academic worlds, we have attempted to come to terms with (and to utilize) our "liminality" differently, yet our approaches have been strangely similar.