A5020781641- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Land Rights and Reforms
- African history and culture analysis
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Law in Society and Culture
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- African history and culture studies
- Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Educational Reforms and Innovations
- European and International Contract Law
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Energy and Environmental Systems
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Diverse Topics in Contemporary Research
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
Research Centre for the Humanities
2004-2022
Kyoto University
2004-2022
This paper discusses the recent emergence of ontological approaches in science and technology studies (STS), anthropology philosophy. Although it is common to hear a turn, or ontology, more than one line intellectual development at stake. In reality, we are witness plural set partly overlapping, divergent, turns.
The aim of this study is to investigate how divine worlds can be created, vitalized, and lived by people. Focusing not on cognition operating through things but bodily action with things, paper examines the actuality these actions, which occur prior cognitive articulation event create novel experiences world. It reconsiders Alfred Gell's theory idolatry ideas Bin Kimura Hideo Kawamoto. Exploring making spirits in Ghana spirit possession rituals South India, presents a fresh view formation as...
This paper investigates spirit (būta) worship in a special economic zone (SEZ) India by considering practices of care around specific constellations nature and infrastructure: fluid, contingent assemblages the 'natural' 'artificial' environments. Occult phenomena modern settings have often been interpreted as metaphorical critiques modernity neophyte proletarians. In SEZ, however, it is not workers but executives who undertake primary role būta rituals. addition, rituals' main aim towards...
An experiment in ethnographic theory, this article aims to finds new ways of getting Japanese spirit worlds into view. In the attempt find repopulating with more than beliefs, socioeconomic realities, and politics, broader "ontographic" issue is how facilitate engagement spirits a way that not overdetermined by assumption such entities do really exist. After examining folklore studies so-called "monsterology" framed their questions around concerns we explore thought maverick scientist...
The aim of this study is to investigate spirit possession through the lenses mimesis, permeability, and perspectivity. Recent studies have explored significance perspective exchange as reciprocal subjectification. At same time, importance reflexive self‐awareness amid has been noted. Linking on with those possession, article tries show an alternative understanding de‐subjectification generative transformation self other. Focusing buuta ritual in S outh I ndia, examine capability for freeing...
Abstract In this article I attempt to analyze the transformation of savanna-originated spirit or suman shrines in a cocoa-producing migrant society Eastern Region Republic Ghana. At beginning twentieth century, various were established as places where people accused witchcraft exorcized Akan societies. Earlier studies have called these 'anti-witchcraft shrines' and interpreted phenomenon being result social change caused by booming cocoa industry. meantime, main function has been transformed...
Matriliny in South India is often considered as having declined the course of modernization. Recent studies, however, highlight social construction matriliny by modern legal discourse. As an alternative to these perspectives, this article presents a fresh viewpoint from which analyze reflexive relationship between law and local practice. In article, I investigate judicature's evolving interpretation (re)construction colonial postcolonial Kanara. also examine practices people who sustain...
In this article I have tried to analyze indigenous logic and practices of land inheritance in Akyem Abuakwa, one the most intensive cocoa producing areas Republic Ghana. Most literatures on kinship political economy African societies insisted transformation a society from lineage-based system into new order based filiation elementary family due modernization penetration market economy. However, cocoa-farmers tenure Southern Ghana show unique variations sophistication systems. For example,...
Andía, Juan Javier Rivera, ed., Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs , 396 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. Hardback, $135.00. ISBN 9781789200973. Cassaniti, J. L., Remembering the Present: Mindfulness Buddhist Asia 318 glossary, references, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Paperback, $27.95. 9781501709173. Casselberry Judith, Elizabeth A. Pritchard, eds., Spirit on Move: Black Women...
This study examines the multi-tiered manifestation of natural environment and social-ecological milieu people living in a tiger reserve, located Uttara Kannada district Indian state Karnataka. The Kali Tiger Reserve is northwestern part Western Ghats, which designated biodiversity hotspot home to wildlife such as Bengal elephant. After forest was Kunbi this area were excluded from laws policies designed promote nature conservation. Their traditional hunter-gatherer activities agricultural...