Research Achievement : FY2015

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Books

  • Moyo Sam and Mine Yoichi eds. 2016. What Colonialism Ignored: ‘African Potentials’ for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa, Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG. 388 pp.

Papers

  • Matsuda, Motoji 2015. ( in press)　A Genesis of Street Communality,　with Special Reference to the Political Culture of Street Violence in Nairobi, URBANITIES,  IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology 5(1).
  • Takahashi, Motoki 2015. Towards Development Cooperation as Inter-Cultural Dialogue: ODA and Japan’s Experience of "Self-Help".PFUR Bulletin of International Relations (People’s Friendship University, Russia) 15( 1): 5-14.
  • Gómez Oscar A., Gasper Des and Mine Yoichi 2016. Moving Development and Security Narratives a Step Further: Human Security in the Human Development Reports. Journal of Development Studies 52 (1): 113-29.
  • Murotani Ryutaro and Mine Yoichi 2015. Bridging State and Local Communities in Fragile States: Subnational Institutions as a Strategic Focus to Restore State Legitimacy. In Chandy Laurence, Kato Hiroshi and Kharas Homi eds, The Last Mile: In Ending Extreme Poverty, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 76-94.
  • Kamidohzono Sachiko G., Gómez Oscar A. and Mine Yoichi 2015. Embracing Human Security: New Directions of Japan’s ODA in the 21st Century. In Shimomura Yasutami, Page John, and Kato Hiroshi eds, Japan’s Development Assistance: Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 205-221.
  • Moyo Sam and Mine Yoichi 2016. Introduction: African Potentials for Conflict Resolution and Transformation. In: Moyo Sam and Mine Yoichi eds. What Colonialism Ignored: ‘African Potentials’ for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa, Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG. 1-34.
  • Mine Yoichi 2016. Sharing Power for Conflict Resolution? Pluralism, Integrationism and African Potentials. In Moyo Sam and Mine Yoichi eds, What Colonialism Ignored: ‘African Potentials’ for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa, Mankon, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG. 211-46.
  • Hockings K. J., Bryson-Morrison N., Carvalho S., Fujisawa M., Humle T., McGrew W. C., Nakamura M., Ohashi G., Yamanashi Y., Yamakoshi G. and Matsuzawa T. 2015. Tools to tipple: Ethanol ingestion by wild chimpanzees using leaf-sponges. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150150
  • Hockings K. J., Bryson-Morrison N., Carvalho S., Fujisawa M., Humle T., McGrew W. C., Nakamura M., Ohashi G., Yamanashi Y., Yamakoshi G. and Matsuzawa T. 2015. Tools to tipple: Ethanol ingestion by wild chimpanzees using leaf-sponges. Royal Society Open Science 2: 150150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150150
  • Oyama, S. 2015. Land degradation and ecological knowledge-based land rehabilitation: Hausa farmers and Fulbe herders in the Sahel region, West Africa. In Reuter, T. ed. Averting a Global Environmental Collapse: The Role of Anthropology and Local Knowledge. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 165-185.
  • Oyama, S. 2016. Guardian or misfeasor? Chief’s roles in land administration under the new 1995 Land Act in Zambia. In Moyo S. and Mine Y. eds. What Colonialism Ignored: ‘African Potentials’ for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa. Langaa RPCIG. 103-128.
  • Toshihiro Abe, 2016, Creating Space for Productive Deviance: The Latent Function of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, in Sam Moyo and Yoichi Mine eds., What Colonialism Ignored: ’African Potentials’ for Resolving Conflicts in Southern Africa. Langaa RPCIG. 173-202.
  • Obvious Katsaura and Abe Toshihiro 2016. Mediated multinational urbanism: a Johannesburg exemplar, Social Dynamics. Routledge, Published online (DOI:10.1080/02533952.2016.1158483). 1-16.
  • Hirano-Nomoto, M. 2016. Introduction to the Special Topic “Coexistence and Conflict Resolution in Cameroon. The African Studies Monographs 37(1): 13-15.
  • Ichino S., Soma T., Miyamoto N., Chatani K., Sato H., Koyama N., Takahata Y. 2015. Lifespan and reproductive senescence in a free-ranging ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) population at Berenty, Madagascar. Folia Primatologica. 86(1/2): 134-139.
  • Kondo, F. 2016. Endogenous Development Process of the Farming System Supported by the Mutural Labour Exchange System: A Case Study among the Bena in Southern Tanzania. Shino, W.. Shiraishi, S. and Ondicho, T. (eds.) Re-finding african local assets and city environments: Governance, research and reflexivity. ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa) and JSPS Nairobi Research Station.. 207-232,
  • Yamada, Shoko 2015. From humanitarianism to trade promotion: the changing emphasis of Japanese development co-operation to Africa. African East-Asian Affairs: The China Monitor 1/ 2: 28-49.
  • Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey and Shoko Yamada 2015. UPE Policy Assessment in Ghana. Ogawa, Keiichi and Mikiko Nishimura (eds) Comparative Analysis on Universal Primary Education Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sense Publishers. 13-34.
  • Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey and Shoko Yamada 2015. UPE Policy and Quality of Education in Ghana.” Ogawa, Keiichi and Mikiko Nishimura (eds), Comparative Analysis on Universal Primary Education Policy and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sense Publishers. 111-134.
  • Takada, A. 2016. Introduction to the supplementary issue “Natural history of communication among the Central Kalahari San”. In Takada, A. (ed.), Special Issue: Natural history of communication among the Central Kalahari San. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue 52: 5-25. doi:10.14989/207697
  • Takada, A. (2016). Employing ecological knowledge during foraging activity: Perception of the landform among the G|ui and G||ana. In Takada, A. (Ed.), Special Issue: Natural history of communication among the Central Kalahari San. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue 52: 147-170. doi:10.14989/207689

International Meetings

  • Takahashi, Motoki 2015. Japan’s Contribution to Sustainable Development in the New Age: A Critical View. 9th Seoul ODA International Conference. October 28, 2015.
  • Shigeta, Masayoshi 2015. Ethnobotanical research on people-plant relationships in Ethiopia: Thirty years of engaged area studies with local people and Enset (Ensete ventricosum).  The 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Warsaw University, Poland. August 28, 2015.
  • Kaneko Morie and Shigeta, Masayoshi 2015. Formation and Sharing of Local Knowledge on the Production and Consumption of Fermented Ensete (Ensete Ventricosum, Musaceae) Starch among the Aari People of Southwestern Ethiopia. The 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Warsaw University, Poland. August 26, 2015.
  • Teferaalemu Samuel and Shigeta Masayoshi 2015.  Perceptions, Opportunities and Challenges of Sedentarization in Hamer, Southwestern Ethiopia. The 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Warsaw University, Poland. August 26, 2015.
  • Shigeta, Masayoshi 2015. African Area Studies of Japan, Review of last 50 years: Moving Beyond the Idiographic/Nomothetic Dichotomy. EHESS, Marseille, France. June 17, 2015.
  • Shigeta, Masayoshi 2015. Cognition, Usefulness and Weediness: Person-Plant Interactions in Acholi Area, Southern Sudan” Séminaire : « Anthropologie évolutionnaire » Animalités croisées, animalités partagées. Marseille, France, 9th June 2015.
  • Shigeta, Masayoshi  2015.  “Unintended positive consequences of local beliefs: Case of folk in-situ conservation and landrace diversity of Ensete ventricosum in Ethiopia” EHESS, Paris, France. June 5, 2015.
  • Mine, Yoichi, 2015. ‘The Making of the Asian Network of African Studies: Perspectives from A-ASIA’s counterpart in Asia’ (Roundtable Convenor), AFRICA -ASIA: A NEW AXIS OF KNOWLEDGE (The inaugural conference of Association of Asian Studies in Africa), School of Law, University of Ghana. Accra, Ghana, 25 September, 2015.
  • Mine, Yoichi 2015. ‘The Rebirth of Bandung and Beyond: Asia-Africa Relations in Historical Perspectives’ (Keynote Speech), Africa’s Engagement with Japan, China, South Korea and India: A Comparative Perspective (International Conference), Centre for African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, October 9, 2015.
  • Mine, Yoichi 2015. ‘The Basic Concept of Human Security: Graphic Illustrations’, The 5th Annual Conference of Japan Association for Human Security Studies, International Christian University, Tokyo. December 13, 2015.
  • Yamakoshi, G 2015. Ethologie et ethnohistoire des chimpanzés. Séminaire « Anthropologie évolutionnaire » Animalités croisées, animalités partagées. Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille (France), June 8, 2015. 
  • Yamakoshi G. 2015 Who Owns African Nature? African Perspectives on the Future of Community-Based Conservation. African Potentials 2016: International Symposium on Conflict Resolution and Coexistence, Large Meeting Room, Inamori Center 3rd Floor, Kyoto University, Kyoto. January 23-24, 2016.
  • Oyama, S. 2015. Countering popular beliefs: Urban waste and livestock-induced land rehabilitation in Sahel region of West Africa. The 25th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Tropical Ecology (JASTE25) in Kyoto. Inamori Memorial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto. 20 June 2015.
  • Oyama, S. 2015. Reverse Thinking and Action Research. SGAS (Swiss Society for African Studies)-SAGUF (Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology) Conference for Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments: Opportunities, Challenges, Actualities in Natural and Social Sciences. Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Berne (Switzerland). 23 October 2015.
  • Oyama, S. 2015. A networking scheme for community-based land rehabilitation and conflict prevention in Niamey and Dogondoutchi. Séminaire du JICA, Académie des Arts Martiaux, Niamey (Niger). 24 November 2015.
  • Oyama, S. 2015. Urban Waste-induced Land Rehabilitation for Food Security and Conflict Prevention in Niger. Séminaire du PNUD (Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement : UNDP), UNDP Niamey office, Niamey (Niger). 4 December, 2015.
  • Nishizaki, Nobuko 2015, Tourism and regional development in Southwestern Ethiopia: Focusing on the implementation of cultural tourism by the Ari people, 5th Africa Forum: ‘Local Knowledge as African Potential’ (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), October 31 – November 1, 2015.
  • Nishizaki, Nobuko 2015. Dynamics of Community-based Cultural tourism in southwestern Ethiopia, 19th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies(ICES), October 24-28 (Warszawa, Poland).
  • Umino, Rumi, 2015. ‘The History is Choir Singing’: An ethnographical study of the historical practice at the Griqua Independent Church in Western Cape, South Africa.  “Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference”, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, Oxford (United Kingdom), August 5, 2015.
  • Sagawa, Toru 2015. Land rush and the frontier processes among the Daasanach of southwestern Ethiopia. 5th African forum ‘Local Knowledge as African Potential’, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 31 October, 2015.
  • Kimura, D. 2015. `Interpenetration of Self’ Observed in Baka’s Social Interaction" 11th International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHaGS11) September 8, 2015. University Viena, Austria.
  • Kimura, D. 2015. Bushmeat hunting, empty forest syndrome and livestock breeding: A case in DR-Congo. Ghana Grasscutter Project Seminar, October 1, 2015. University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
  • Kimura, D. 2015. AFlora: A Database of Plant Use in Africa.  FOSAS international symposium, 2015年November 11-12, Mont Febe Hotel, Yaounde, Cameroon.
  • Shin-ichiro, I. 2015. Khat Production in the Îgembe District of Kenya: How the UK Ban on Khat Affects a Local Industry. The 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Colorado Convention Center. 19 November 2015.
  • Ogawa, S. 2016. Re-globalization through the Trans-border Trading of Second-hand Clothing in East Africa, The 4th Seminar of African Studies, Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul（South Korea）24 March 2016.
  • Ichino S, Soma T, Miyamoto N, Chatani K, Sato H, Koyama N, Takahata Y. 2015. A 26-year study of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at Berenty Reserve, Madagascar. The 4th International Seminar on Biodiversity and Evolution: Molecular Studies for Wildlife Science, Kyoto University North Campus Science Seminar House, Kyoto (Japan). 9 June 2015.
  • Takada, A. 2015. Socialization of toddlers through participating in singing and dancing activity of multi-aged child group of the !Xun of north-central Namibia. Paper presented at the panel "The emergence of participation: a developmental perspective" at Revisiting Participation. Language and Bodies in Interaction, University of Basel, Switzerland, 24-27 June 2015 (26th June).
  • Takada, A. 2015. Unfolding cultural meanings: Wayfinding practices among the G|ui/G||ana of the Central Kalahari. Paper presented at the Satterthwaite Colloquium on African Ritual and Religion, Grasmere, U.K., May 25-28 (28th May 2015) Abstracts, p.9.
  • Takada, A. 2015.  What kinds of child and family studies can an anthropologist conduct? A case study of the !Xun of north-central Namibia. Paper presented at the NIAS workshop “Children seen and heard across the globe: A multidisciplinary cross-cultural approach to video data of family life and child development”, NIAS, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, 29 April – 1 May 2015 (29th April 2015).
  • Takada, A. 2015. Kinship and naming practices among the !Xun of north-central Namibia. Paper presented at the 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, University of Vienna, Vienna, 7-11 September 2015(September 8th). CHAGS XI Complete Printed Program, p39.