【2024/3/14】The following Emotion socialization collection has been published in Scientifc Reportshttps://www.nature.com/collections/facfeicdifAmong CCI members, Takada was involved in the editorial work as one of the co-editors. Below is an overview of this collection.Takada, A. & Dan-Glauser, E. (2024). Decoding the complexities of emotion socialization: cultures, individual features and shared information. Scientific Reports 14, 3536 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52885-9
Eating and Living: A Case Study of People in Botswana (tentative title) 【Date】15th January 2024 (Mon)【Time】15:00 – 17:00【Venue】Kyoto University, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (third floor), Large-sized meeting room.No reservation is required for participating in the Seminar. 【Schedule】15:00-15:15 Introduction Akira Takada ( Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies professor)15:15-16:30 Ms. Leepile Tebogo Thandie 16:30-16:40 commentator：Ms. Junko Watanabe（Minami Kyushu University） Details will be announced as soon as we are finalized. 【Notes】 * The talk is given in English, and no translation will be provided. *No reservation is required for participating in the Colloquium. The Colloquium of Ecological future making of childrearing is a serial seminar that was set up in […]
Diversity within diversity: a description of Tshaasi 【Date】9th January 2024 (Tue)【Time】15:00 – 17:00【Venue】Kyoto University, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (third floor), 318.No reservation is required for participating in the Seminar. 【Schedule】15:00-15:15 Introduction Akira Takada ( Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies professor)15:15-17:00 Saeed Radawi (Humboldt university Berlin)Title: “Diversity within diversity: a description of Tshaasi”abstract： Tshaasi, the easternmost variety of Taa (Naumann 2014), is the least studied dialect group of the language complex. The aim of my doctoral project is to fill this gap and to provide a description of Tshaasi with particular reference to language contact.[nishiki_pro_br display=”desktop”]In my talk, I will outline the main questions to be addressed in […]
116th KUASS “Survival Strategies of Migrants and Internal Displaced Populations in Cameroon: Between Social Protection and Entrepreneurship Responses”(Prof.Dr Antoine Socpa) 【Date】Thursday, November 30, 2023【Time】15:00 – 17:00【Venue】Kyoto University, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building, 3F 318No reservation is required for participating in the Seminar.
Akira Takada (Professor, Kyoto University) made a poster presentation at the 5th meeting of “multi-hierarchical network research unit” on November 8, 2023. The title of the poster is “Individual 4: Effects of natural environment, group composition, and genetic traits on social activities of Japanese macaques and chimpanzees”.
Akira Takada (Professor, Kyoto University) participated in the round table at the 54th Annual Conference of the Japan Music Education Society in Hirosaki
【2023/10/06】The following book was published<https://www.hituzi.co.jp/hituzibooks/ISBN978-4-8234-1049-9.htm>Among the CCI members, Takada (Editor; pp.3-34, 189-213)， Ochs (pp.37-72)， Burdelski (pp.237-265) contributed to the book． Cook-Minegishi, H. & Takada, A. (eds.). (2023). Japanese handbook of language socialization. Tokyo: Hitsuji shobo.
Date：2023/10/6, 12:00～13:45Venue：Kyoto University, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (third floor), 301Title :「hazukashii」Presenter: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Professor, Akira Takada
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 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.
Co-construction of Habitus and Habitat in Namibia 【Date】28th July 2023 (Friday)【Time】14:00 – 17:00【Venue】#Large-sized meeting room, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (third floor), Kyoto University 【Schedule】14:00-14:10 Introduction Akira Takada (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University)14:10-15:30 Ms. Velina Ninkova（Development Studies, Department of International Studies and Interpreting, Faculty of Education and International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University） Title： “Education has made me lazy”: Reflections on the education challenges for the Omaheke Ju|’hoansi, Namibia 15:30-15:40 Short Break 15:40-17:00 Mr. Simon Hangula Hangula（Ministry of Environment Forestry and Tourism, Namibia） Title： The African ecological mechanisms of landscape formation: Application of remote sensing and GIS 【Notes】 *No reservation is required for participating in the Colloquium. * Admission-free.
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.
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)
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.
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.
