Shino Yamamoto(Graduate Student) Dispatch report, Namibia (2022/11/2-2023/1/26) Report on the Dispatch to Namibia: Acquiring knowledge: The study of children’s livelihood and indigenous knowledge in Ovahimba Shino Yamamoto3rd year studentDivision of African Area StudiesGraduate School of Asian and African Area StudiesKyoto University Dispatch Period: 2nd November 2022−26th January 2023Destination of Dispatch: The Republic of NamibiaKey Words: children, socialization,...
Akira Takada (Professor,Kyoto University) Dispatch report, Cameroon (2023/2/11-2023/2/23) Report on the Dispatch to Cameroon: Grounding of Scientific Research (S) Akira TakadaProfessorGraduate School of Asian and African Area StudiesKyoto University From February 11 to 23, 2022, I visited the University of Yaounde I in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, and settlements around Bertoua, the capital of the Eastern Province,...
Akira Takada (Professor,Kyoto University) Dispatch report, United States of America (2022/12/27-2023/1/15) Report on the Dispatch to the United States of America: Collaboration with UCLA and UCSD Akira TakadaProfessorGraduate School of Asian and African Area StudiesKyoto University I visited Los Angeles and San Diego, U.S.A., from December 27, 2022 to January 15, 2023. Although it was a short visit, it was a...
Akira Takada (Professor,Kyoto University) Dispatch report, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa (2022/09/24-2022/12/15) Report on the Dispatch to Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa: Grounding of Scientific Research (S) Akira TakadaProfessorGraduate School of Asian and African Area StudiesKyoto University From September 24 to December 15, 2022, I visited the University of Botswana, New Xade Village in Botswana, the University of Namibia, Ekoka Village in...
Akira Takada (Professor,Kyoto University) Dispatch report, Ireland (2022/06/25-2022/07/02) Report on the Dispatch to Ireland: Participation and presentation at CHAGS13 Akira TakadaProfessorGraduate School of Asian and African Area StudiesKyoto University From June 25 to July 2, 2022, I visited the University of Dublin in Dublin, Republic of Ireland (Photo 1) to participate in the 13th Conference on Hunting and...
“Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education” Among CCI members, Burdelski (Chapter 6) and Takada (Chapter 21) contributed chapters. Church, A. & Bateman, A. (eds.)(2022) Talking with children: A handbook for early childhood education. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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)
