ILCAA Joint Research Project

Human Society in Evolutionary Perspectives (3) (jrp000189)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2012–March, 2015

This joint research project aims to take a view of human society over a long term from an evolutionary historical perspective. Hence, using the three academic disciplines of primatology, ecological and social / cultural anthropologies―as a base, this joint research project comprises the work of experts in fields such as social philosophy and ethics. The first phase of this long-term joint research project focused on the theme of ‘groups’, which was conducted between 2005 and 2008. The second phase, undertaken between 2009 and 2011, focused on the theme of ‘institutions’. This pattern of changing themes continues as the research progresses, and the theme established for the third phase is ‘others’. The results of the first and second research phases show that human beings establish a wide variety of groups, and that they live in complex and multifarious societies equipped with a wide variety of institutions. This joint research project offers an inverse perspective on the evolution of human society and its sociality, thus far, by examining the nature of the existence of ‘others’ and how they appear, relate and confront one another.

Members

Coordinator

• Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Ikuya TOKORO
• Izumi HOSHI
• Ryoko NISHII
• Wakana SHIINO

Joint Researchers

• Gen YAMAKOSHI
• Hideaki TERASHIMA
• Hitonaru NISHIE
• Hitoshige HAYAKI
• Kaoru ADACHI
• Keiichi OMURA
• Koji KITAMURA
• Masakazu TANAKA
• Michio NAKAMURA
• Motomitsu UCHIBORI
• Nobutaka KAMEI
• Noriko ITOH
• Shunkichi HANAMURA
• Suehisa KURODA
• Sumihiko KUMANO
• Takeo FUNABIKI
• Toru SOGA
• Yuji TAKENOSHITA
• Yuko SUGIYAMA

Outputs

Meetings

Publication meeting

• Date/Time: 11 July 2015 (Sat.) 9:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• All members

  Editorial meeting by the contributors of ”Otherness: The Evolution of Human Sociality.

The 15th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(85KB)

• Date/Time: 1 March 2015 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• All members

  Summary and brainstorming on publishing

The 14th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(156KB)

• Date/Time: 14 February 2015 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Hitoshige HAYAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Gakuin University)

  “Continuity and discontinuity: Reconsideration on the transfer”

  Masakazu TANAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Thinking the Other through Violence and Sex”

The 13th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(228KB)

• Date/Time: 13 December 2014 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)

  “The face and others-Muslim Women and the Veil.”

  Yuko SUGIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hirosaki University)

  ”Multiple Pictures of “Others” in an Agrarian Society of Africa-Ancetral Spirits, Witchcraft and the Daily Life.”

  Yuu MIZUNO (Chubu Gakuin University)

  “The Presence of Another Person in Early Development: The Comparative Developmental Psychological Point of View.”

The 12th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(186KB)

• Date/Time: 11 October 2014 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Toru SOGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hirosaki University)

  “The Other Emerge From Triangular Relationship”

  Keiichi OMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Dymanics of Otherness and Alienness: The Basis of Ethics in Canadian Inuit Societies.”

The 11th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(KB)

• Date/Time: 2 August 2014 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• All members

  Brainstorming

  Yuji TAKENOSHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chubu Gakuin University)

  “Evolution of human cooperative breeding system and emergence of “others.””

The 10th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(163KB)

• Date/Time: 29 June 2014 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Takeo FUNABIKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  “The meaning of "otherness" in one-to-one relationship”

  Shunkichi HANAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Otherness in chimpanzee society: unfamiliar voices and the different responses of newly-immigrated females and resident individuals”

The 9th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(135KB)

• Date/Time: 29 September 2013 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Hitonaru NISHIE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Alterity in chimpanzees: how do chimpanzees not encounter with each other?”

  Hideaki TERASHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Gakuin University)

  “The role of others in human learning: from evolutionary perspective”

The 8th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(163KB)

• Date/Time: 27 July 2013 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Noriko ITOH (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Who is “others”: Being, Having and Doing”

  Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)

  “On Otherness in the Self”

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(148KB)

• Date/Time: 30 June 2013 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Kaoru ADACHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Sangyo University)

  “Equilibrium, harmony of nature and systems”

  Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA)

  “When Nonhuman things become Others: Pearl Oyster, Animism of machine, Turing test in wild.”

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(145KB)

• Date/Time: 28 April 2013 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Michio NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “On Otherness of Nonhuman Animals”

  Keiichi OMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Imagination as the Basis of Human Social Group ‘Othering of Child’ and ‘Alienation of Wildlife’ in Formation of the Inuit Extended Family”

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(116KB)

• Date/Time: 11 February 2013 (Mon.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 302 (Small Conference Room), ILCAA

• Yuji TAKENOSHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chubu Gakuin University)

  “Others as confronting same environment”

  Sumihiko KUMAN (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)

  “A Short History of Philosophy concerning Otherness”

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(134KB)

• Date/Time: 9 December 2012 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306 (Multimedia Seminar Room), ILCAA

• Koji KITAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Okayama University)

  “‘Others’ are those who can be either enemies or friends”

  Suehisa KURODA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Shiga Prefecture)

  “Collective identity in primates”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(232KB)

• Date/Time: 14 October 2012 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306 (Multimedia Seminar Room), ILCAA

• Gen YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “On ‘habituation’ of wildlife”

  Motomitsu UCHIBORI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Open University of Japan)

  “Unseen Others, Absent Others: Ways of Being of Spirits, Deities and Others”

The 2nd meeting

• Date/Time: 21 July 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00, 22 July 2012 (Sun.) 9:30-17:00
• Venue: Room 306 (Multimedia Seminar Room), ILCAA

• All members

  “From ‘Groups’ and ‘Institution’ to ‘Others’”

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(215KB)

• Date/Time: 19 May 2012 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306 (Multimedia Seminar Room), ILCAA

• Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA)

  “Purpose of the Joint Research Project”

• 《‘Others’: Introduction from 3 academic fields》

• Hitoshige HAYAKI (ILCAA Joint researcher, Kobe Gakuin University)

  “Primatology”

  Toru SOGA (ILCAA Joint researcher, Hirosaki University)

  “Ecological anthropology”

  Keiichi OMURA (ILCAA Joint researcher, Osaka University)

  “Social and cultural anthropology”

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