Awards： Yuriko Sugiyama (Research fellow), “Best Research Paper Award”, Japan Society of Lifology Yuriko Sugiyama, research fellow, received “Best Research Paper Award” from Japan Society of Lifology. The winning paper is ”Social Restructuring and Funerary Rites among the Central Kalahari San of Botswana: Coping with the Changes of Life and Death”, Japan Society of Lifology 2021, 40: 1-14.
The obituary to Alan Bernard The following obituary was published.<https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8322.12817>． We pray for the repose of the soul of Alan Barnard, who was also a Japanophile.Widlok, T., & Takada, A. (2023). Obituary: Alan Barnard (1949-2022). Anthropology Today, 39(3), 26.
The book launch of “Hunters among farmers: The !Xun of Ekoka”was hosted by The University of Namibia Press. The book launch was held on November 8 in Windhoek, Namibia, with the participation of the project leader, Dr. Akira Takada, post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Koji Hayashi, and ASAFAS graduate students Shino Yamamoto and Mitsuki Kawajiri, who discussed the book with the audience from Namibia and abroad. Publication information：Takada, A. (2022)....
We started up “Ecological future making of childrearing in contact zones between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa” website
“Hunters among farmers: The !Xun of Ekoka” It’s a compilation of the results of Takada’s (CCI representative) field research mainly in Namibia over many years.Takada, A. (2022). Theorizing child-rearing in hunter-gatherer societies: Child socialization and caregiving behaviors among the !Xun San. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. (in Japanese)
