2022/06/10
【2022/6/10】The following book was released!

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.

2022/03/17
【2022/3/17】14th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation

Mr. Simon Hangula Hangula from Niigata Univ. and Dr.Yuichiro Fujioka from Kyushu Univ. gave the talk in hybrid style. The title of Simon’s talk was ”The application of remote sensing to monitor forest degradation due to human activities in the buffer zones around national parks in Namibia.” The title of Yuichiro’s talk was ”Formation of Agro-Landscape in North-Central Namibia: Examining the Functions of Human Activities.” Thank you for join us.

2022/01/21
【2022/01/21】13th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation

【Date】 January 21st 2022 【Time】19:00 – 21:00 【Style】 Online, Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84114456074?pwd=UkNpallJZlZOdmVPTnpXUTdwa2N6QT09 Meeting ID: 841 1445 6074 Pass code: 476451 【Language】 English 【Schedule】 19:00-19:10 Introduction Akira Takada (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University, Japan) 19:10-20:40 Title: Mining and the Moral and Political Economies of Health in Early Colonial South-West Africa Mattia Fumanti (School of Philosophical Anthropological & Film Studies, University of St Andrews, UK) Abstract: This paper will focus on the ways in which different colonial actors, mining companies’ manager, colonial administrators, and medical officers helped to shape colonial health policies in the mines of South-West Africa in the first two decades after WWI. Whilst there […]

2022/01/13
【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.

2022/01/07
【2021/11/16】12th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation

Dr. Federico Rossano from UCSD gave the online talk. The title of his talk was ”The emergence of property concerns ” Thank you for join us.

2021/09/30
【2021/9/27】The following book was published

<https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783030769239>. Among the CCImembers, Takada & Miyake (pp.245-266) contributed chapters.Steinforth, A. S. & Klocke-Daffa, S. (eds.)(2021) Challengingauthorities: Ethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern andsouthern Africa. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

2021/03/23
【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: LangaaRPCIG <https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/knowledge-education-and-social-structure-in-africa>Among the CCI members, Takada (Introduction, Chapter 2) contributed asan editor and author.

2021/03/23
【2021/2/20】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”” washeld.

2021/02/16
【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.

2020/11/24
【2020/11/22】A book review was published.

The book review of “Narratives on San ethnicity: The cultural and ecological foundations of lifeworld among the !Xun of north-central Namibia” was published in Journal of Southern African Studies, 45(2)<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070.2019.1579975?journalCode=cjss20>. In addition, based on the book review, a discussion seminar was held at the following webinar.The Webinar Series of Kalahari Basin Area Network. 19th November 2020.