We will have public lectures at The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University. We will have public lectures at The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University from October 2023 to February 2024. All courses will be conducted in Japanese.
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.
【2022/12/17】The following book was published 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.
【2022/8/8】The following book was published 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)
Hunters among farmers: The !Xun of Ekoka It’s a substantially revised edition of “Narratives on San ethnicity” (Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, 2015). Takada, A. (2022). Hunters among farmers: The !Xun of Ekoka. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press.
【2022/1/7】The following special issue of “Techniques & Culture” was published <https://journals.openedition.org/tc/16054>. Among the CCI members, Takada contributed as one of the editors and authors (pp.10-23, 56-69). Joulian, F., Shimada, M., Takada, A., & Tian, X. (Eds.). (2021). Waza, l’art ineffable de l’apprentissage. Techniques & Culture, 76, 1-253.
【2021/9/27】The following book was published <https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783030769239>. Among the CCI members, Takada & Miyake (pp.245-266) contributed chapters. Steinforth, A. S. & Klocke-Daffa, S. (eds.)(2021) Challenging authorities: Ethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
【2021/03/19】The following book was published. Yamada, S., Takada, A., & Kessi, S. (Eds.). (2021). Knowledge, education, and social structure in Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa RPCIG <https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/knowledge-education-and-social-structure-in-africa> Among the CCI members, Takada (Introduction, Chapter 2) contributed as an editor and author.
【2021/02/20】A joint review session was held. In the Zoom symposium of the MC research group <http://rcsp.main.jp/mc/diary7.html>, a joint review session of “Anthropology of interaction: Places where “mind” meets “culture”” was held.
【2021/02/11】A book review was published. The book review of “Anthropology of interaction: Places where “mind” meets “culture”” was published in Journal of African Studies, 98, 56-60.
