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ILCAA Joint Research Project
‘Single’ and Family: The Anthropological Study of ‘Enishi (karmic/relation/connection)’ (jrp000170)
About the Project
Project term: April, 2010 - March, 2013
Summary of the project: This research is about the people who are categorized as ‘single’in the society from the standpoint of socio-cultural anthropology. We will studyby paying specific attention to the existence of the ‘single’ and the way of life, by using Enishi, a Japanese word, which mean karmic/relation/connection.
At that time, we focus on ‘single’in society and concerned about family and kinship relations, and in addition, on the relationship between "single" and the state which put considerable impact on the individual person.
Wakana Shiino, Project Coordinator (ILCAA)
Members
Coordinator
ILCAA Staff
Ryoko NISHII (Sub-coordinator)
Joint Researchers
Akiko KUNIHIRO
Akitomo SHINGAE
Erika TAKAHASHI
Hiroki OKADA
Ikuko KOIKE
Jun BABA
Kaoru MURAKAMI
Keiya HANABUCHI
Kiyoshi TADOKORO
Masakazu TANAKA
Mioko KOBAYASHI
Namie TSUJIGAMI
Sachiko YOKOTA
Satoshi TANAHASHI
Sayaka UEMURA
Shinobu MYOKI
Taeko UDAGAWA
Taeko UESUGI
Toru KONMA
Yoko TANIGUCHI
Yuko YAGI
Outputs
Meetings
Date/Time: 31 March 2013 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
Venue: Hongo Satellite 7F
All members
A meeting for jointly reviewing papers to publish
Date/Time: 2 February 2013 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
Venue: Hongo Satellite 7F
Satoshi TANAHASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ochanomizu University)
“Threads as Spun by Spinsters: Reconsidering Pathfinders of Polynesian Diaspora”
Akiko KUNIHIRO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Gunma Prefectual Women’s University)
“Rethinking Individualism and ‘Man-outside-the-world’”
Date/Time: 21 December 2012 (Fri.) 17:30-19:30, 22 December 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
Venue: Hongo Satellite 8F, 4F
21 December
Kikue FUKAMI (Hitotsubashi University)
“Living in between: A Case Study of Polyamory in Southern California”
22 December
Yuichiro SAKAI (Keio University)
“The Single life and Familism in Prewar Japan” (tentative title)
Erika TAKAHASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology)
“Family as a Vocation: The process of re-organizing local welfare system through introducing the support system for relative care takers”
Date/Time:21 July 2012 (Sat.) 14:30-19:30
Venue:Hongo Satellite 3F
Kikue FUKAMI (Hitotsubashi University)
“Living in between:A Case Study of Polyamory in Southern California”
Masakazu TANAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)
“Violence against Women's Single Life: From Rape to Honour-based Violence”
Commentator: Yoko NARISADA (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Date/Time:9 June 2012 (Sat.) 13:30-19:00
Venue:Hongo Satellite 5F
Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)
“Thinking of Anthropological Viewpoint for ‘single’ in the world” (tentative title)
Yoko TANIGUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Senshu University)
“Reconsideration of the Meaning of Relatedness and Being Alone in Contemporary Japan”
Sachiko YOKOTA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
“International Marriage in Taiwan: from Replaceable Relationship to Irreplaceable Family” (tentative title)
Date/Time:30 March 2012 (Fri.) 13:30-19:00
Venue:Hongo Satellite 7F
Taeko UESUGI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Senshu University)
“Single soldiers and married soldiers: Ambivalence of marital status for state policies”
Shinobu MYOKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Rethinking Umesao Tadao’s Ideas on Women”
Date/Time:12 November 2011 (Sat.) 13:30-18:30
Venue:Hongo Satellite 5F
Jun BABA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Lies and ties: Strategies for survival of a homeless person”
Keiya HANABUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido)
“Immigrant links to the Home: A Comorian woman’s farewells and reunions in Marseille”
Date/Time:23 July 2011 (Sat.) 13:30-19:00
Venue:Hongo Satellite 5F
Ikuko KOIKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)
“Orisa Worship and ‘Single’: Network Formation in the African American Socio-Religious Movement”
Akitomo SHINGAE (Nagoya City University School of Nursing)
“From Sex to Homosexual Partnership: Rethinking ‘Queer Families’”
Date/Time:19 June 2011 (Sun.) 14:00-19:30
Venue:Hongo Satellite 7F
Akiko KUNIHIRO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Gunma Prefectural Women’s University)
“Kinship of Hijras, renouncers in India”
Sayaka UEMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo International University)
“The Rethinking of ‘Alien Society’: when the individualism creates the tie.”
Date/Time:27 November 2010 (Sat.) 14:00-19:00
Venue:Hongo Satellite 8F
Namie TSUJIGAMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kochi Women’s University)
“Polygamy and ‘Singled’ Women in Saudi Arabia”
Kaoru MURAKAMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan External Trade Organization)
“Being ‘single’ women in Turkish society”
Date/Time:7 November 2010 (Sun.) 13:30-18:00
Venue:Room 302 (Small Conference Room), ILCAA
Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)
““Single” Organizing Concepts - study on “Single” to continue towards”
‘Living with “single”’ joint review meeting
Date/Time:11 July 2010 (Sun.) 13:00-18:00
Venue:Room 302 (Small Conference Room), ILCAA
The purpose of this research project, the background of this
Self introduction on resarch topics and the study plan for this project by each co-researcher
Disccussion about the study schedule
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