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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
FUKUSHIMA, Masato 福島 真人 [Website] [Researchmap]
Anthropological approach to science and technology (STS: Social studies of science and technology), social anthropology of contemporary institutions like laboratories, hospitals and organizations, cognition and learning theory, comparative religious studies.
HAMADA, Akinori 浜田 明範 [Researchmap]
Anthropology of infectious disease and economic anthropology based on fieldwork in Southern Ghana. Anthropological response to the pandemic of covid-19 in Japan.
MIYACHI, Takahiro 宮地 隆廣 [Website] [Researchmap]
Politics and development of Latin American countries.
NAKAMURA, Sae 中村 沙絵 [Researchmap]
My academic concerns are broadly aimed at themes in medical anthropology with a focus on anthropology of aging, illness, care, and welfare. My specific research topics include ethics and aesthetics of care, embodied communication, and what I call "welfare culture." I am also interested in exploring a mode of writing that maintains an openness to ambiguities, contingencies, and surprises in our everyday life. My main fields of research is South Asia, especially Sri Lanka.
SEKIYA, Yuichi 関谷 雄一 [Website] [Researchmap]
Development Anthropology and Human Security Studies. My expertise is in social development research and agricultural villages in developing nations, beginning with social research done in Africa. My interest is in social system engineering, and would like to invoke that knowledge in debates about "human security".
TSUDA, Koji 津田 浩司 [Website] [Researchmap]
Anthropology of Southeast Asia and East Asia. Interests include race, ethnicity and phenomena related to religion. My expertise is in ethnography of contemporary Chinese society in the minor islands of Southeast Asia.
TSUKAHARA, Shinji 塚原 伸治 [Researchmap]
I specialize in folkloristics. In particular, I have been thinking about the present of people living in small and medium-sized cities in rural Japan in relation to their history and traditions. In recent years, I have also been working on new perspectives on classical subjects such as folk performing arts and festivals.
WATANABE, Hibi 渡邉 日日 [Researchmap]
Theoretical research related to culture, society and civil society, social anthropological research related to knowledge, economy, group classifications and language. Research areas include the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe (in particular the Buryatskayan Republic in the Russian Federation).
YANAI, Tadashi 箭内 匡 [Website][Researchmap]
Anthropology of media and image, proposed here not as a subfield of sociocultural anthropology, but as a new kind of anthropology of Nature which embraces classic and contemporary anthropologies, text and image-based medias, everyday life and ontological concerns.
Affiliated with the Department of Area Studies,
Graduate School of Arts and Science
Graduate School of Arts and Science
MORIYAMA, Takumi 森山 工 [Web page] [Researchmap]
Anthropological research on Madagascar society, French colonialist history.
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
NAWA, Katsuo 名和 克郎 [Web page] [Researchmap]
Social and Cultural Anthropology, including anthropological research in group classifications, ritual, language use, Nepalese and Himalayan ethnic group related ethnography.
KURAMOTO, Ryosuke 藏本 龍介 [Researchmap]
Anthropological and sociological approach to institutional religions, Theravāda Buddhism in Myanmar(Burma).