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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...

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...

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....

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.>

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.

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>

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>

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

Nakagawa, N. & Watanabe, K. (eds.) (2015). Stimulating Goffman: The sociology of interaction order. Tokyo: Shinyosha. (in Japanese) This book includes the following paper written by CCI member. Takada, A. (2015). Goffman’s craftwork: The legacy in linguistic anthropology. In N. Nakagawa, & K. Watanabe (Eds.), Stimulating Goffman: The sociology of...

Michinobu, R. (ed.) (2015). Life and nurturing: The influence of contemporary medicine, social welfare and culture on today’s children. Iwanami paperback pocket edition series. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. (in Japanese). This book includes the following paper written by CCI member. Takada, A. (2015). Child rearing in everyday life. In R. Michinobu...