【2017/02/13】New Publication: Book Takada, A. (2017). Re-enacting Birth: Resettlement policy and the ritualistic treatment of abnormal birth in Botswana. Anthropology of giving birth/making a family: An invitation to alternatives. Tokyo:Bensey Publishing Inc, pp.185-209. <http://bensei.jp/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=2&products_id=100698>
【2016/11/18】New Publication: Book Terashima, H. & Hewlett, B. S. (Eds.), Social learning and innovation in contemporary hunter-gatherers: Evolutionary and ethnographic perspectives. Tokyo:Springer<http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-4-431-55997-9> This book includes the following papers written by CCI members. “Transmission of Body Decoration Among the Baka Hunter-Gatherers” by Yujie Peng (pp.83-93). “Education and learning during social situations among the Central...
【2016/11/18】New Publication: Book Bateman, A. & Church, A. (Eds.), Children’s knowledge-in-interaction: Studies in conversation analysis. Springer.<http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-1703-2> This book includes the following papers written by CCI members. “Relating with an Unborn Baby: Expectant Mothers Socializing Their Toddlers in Japanese Families” by Akira Takada & Michie Kawashima (pp.211-229). “Young Children’s Initial Assessments in Japanese” by...
【2016/05/24】New Publication: Book Lovis, W. & Whallon, R. (eds.) (2016). Marking the Land: Hunter-gatherer creation of meaning in their environment. New York: Routledge. More information: Amazon.com. This book includes the following paper written by CCI member. Takada, A. (2016). Unfolding cultural meanings: Wayfinding practices among the San of the Central Kalahari. In W....
【2016/03/25】New Publication: Special Issue Takada, A. (ed.) (2016). Natural History of Communication among the Central Kalahari San. African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue, 52, 1-187. <http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2433/207684.>
【2016/02/24】New Publication: Journal Article Senzaki, S., Masuda, T., Takada, A., and Okada, H. (2016). The communication of culturally dominant modes of attention from parentsto children: A comparison of Canadian and Japanese parent child conversations during a joint scene description task. PLoS ONE 11(1):e0147199. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147199.
【2015/10/09】13th Seminar of Anthropology of Education and Learning 13th Seminar of Anthropology of Education and Learning was held in Kyoto University on 9th (Friday) October 2015. This time we invited Dr. Sheena Shah <http://www.caldi.uct.ac.za/people/sheena-shah/> from the Centre for African Language Diversity (CALDi), University of Cape Town.
【2015/09/18】New Publication: Journal Article Takada, A. (2015). Comment on “Children as a Reserve Labor Force”, by David F. Lancy. Current Anthropology, 56(4), 562-563. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/679361>
【2015/08/27】New Publication: Special Issue 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. <http://www.africapotential.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/exploring-african-potentials-the-dynamics-of-action-living-strategy-and-social-order-in-southern-africa-2.html>
【2015/06/05】New Publication: Journal Article Takada, A. & Endo, T. (2015). Object transfer in request-accept sequence in Japanese caregiver-child interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 82, 52-66. <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-pragmatics/> DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.011