“African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)

	Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Research Fields	I researched areas such as interaction between rearer and children, environmental perception, and changes in ethnicity with a main focus on San (Bushman), the native hunter-gatherers in southern Africa. In this project, I would particularly like to examine how indigenous and exogenous knowledge and technologies have been shared and changed in various African communities with fellow members with different disciplines.
Main Works	Takada, A. (ed.). (2016). Natural history of communication among the Central Kalahari San. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue, 52, 1-187. Takada, A. (2016). Unfolding cultural meanings: Wayfinding practices among the San of the Central Kalahari. In W. Lovis & R. Whallon (Eds.), Marking the Land: Hunter-gatherer creation of meaning in their environment. New York: Routledge, pp.180-200. Takada, A. (2015). Narratives on San ethnicity: The cultural and ecological foundations of lifeworld among the !Xun of north-central Namibia. Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press. Takada, A., Nyamongo, I., & Teshirogi, K. (eds.)(2014), Special Issue: Exploring African potentials: The dynamics of action, living strategy, and social order in Southern Africa. MILA – A Journal of the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies 12: iii-iv,1-75. Takada, A. (2012). Pre-verbal infant-caregiver interaction. In A. Duranti, E. Ochs, & B. B. Schieffelin (Eds.), The handbook of language socialization. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.56-80.

Akira Takada