ILCAA Joint Research Project

Anthropological Study of Things(2) (Dynamics of Human/Non-human things) (jrp000202)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2014–March, 2017

This study project is the second part of the previous study project named, “The Anthropological Study of Things” in ILCAA during 2006-2009. The previous project studied the relationship between human beings and non-human things (e.g. artifacts, artificial objects, natural things, animals etc.) in different socio-cultural settings in world. In the second part of this project, we continue our anthropological (ethnographical study) on various aspects between human beings and non-human things and the study’s implications for culture, society and technology

Members

Coordinator

• Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA)

ILCAA Staff

• Kaori KAWAI
• Ryoko NISHII
• Yukako YOSHIDA

Joint Researchers

• Akinori KUBO
• Atsurou MORITA
• Kaori KOMATSU
• Katsumi OKUNO
• Keiichi OHMURA
• Masakazu TANAKA
• Motomitsu UCHIBORI
• Michio NAKAMURA
• Morie KANEKO
• Naoki KASUGA
• Noriko ITO
• Shinya KONAKA
• Suehisa KURODA
• Tatsuya HIGAKI
• Tomoko NIWA

Outputs

Meetings

Publication meeting ：Report (Japanese)(53KB)

• Date/Time: 9 June 2017 (June.) 10:30–19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
All members
Meeting on publication

The 9th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(142KB)

• Date/Time: 23 October 2016 (Sun.) 10:00–18:00
• Venue: Room 405, ILCAA

• Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA)

  “‘Mono (Things)’ grasped by the five senses: Perceptions and Umwelt.”

  Kaori KOMATSU (Hokkai Gakuen University)

  “The power of bazaar - foodstuff in Daiichi-Makishi-Kosetsu-Ichiba”

  All members

  Discussion for publication of the research project (by all members)

The 8th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(224KB)

• Date/Time: 11 June 2016 (Sat.) 13:00-19:00, 12 June 2016 (Sun.) 10:00-15:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• 11 June

• Naoki KASUGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University)

  “Between Two Truths: Time in Fiji and Physics .”

  Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)

  “'Tangled hair’ as a cardinal point of ethnographic descriptionーfrom hippies to dakwa activists”

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

  “How A Farmers’ Blacksmith Hammered Iron : Circulating forgings indicated the soil, woods and personality”

• 12 June

• Kaori FUSHIKI (Taisho University)

  “Topology of the Puppet Theatre Potehi”

  Tomoko NIWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Institutes for the Humanities)

  “Shanbei Paper-cuts?and Ritual?Paper Crafts: Actualization of the Disposition of Yin/Yang World“

The 7th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(323KB)

• Date/Time: 13 February 2016 (Sat.) 13:00‐19:20
• Venue: Room 405, ILCAA

• Shinya KONAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Shizuoka)

  “The Ontology of Savanna: Material Culture of Evacuation in East African Pastoral Societies.”

  Ayako IWATANI (Kyoto University)

  “Productive Waste: Circulation of Old Clothes and Waste in India”

  Takeshi NAGANUMA (Hiroshima University)

  “Close Encounters of the Fifth kind (CE5): Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence”

The 6th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(246KB)

• Date/Time: 8 November 2015 (Sun.) 13:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Katsumi OKUNO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Rikkyo University)

  “Humans eat birds, birds help animals：An aspect of perspectivism among the Penan of Borneo.”

  Noriko ITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Chimpanzees and the Dynamics of Human/Non-human Things”

  Keiichi OMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “From Ontology to Cosmetiques: Towards an Symmetrical Approach to Indigenous Knowledge and Modern Techno-science.”

  Ayako IWATANI (Kyoto University)

  “Productive Waste: People, Things and Their Boundaries Mediated by Street Vendors in India”

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(220KB)

• Date/Time: 12 July 2015 (Sun.) 14:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Tatsuya HIGAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)

  “Metallurgy, Deleuze and Technology”

  Goro YAMAZAKI (Osaka University)

  “Chain of Relationships and Communication: Pragmatism on the Unconscious States”

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)(277KB)

• Date/Time: 16 May 2015 (Sat.) 14:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Kyoko NAKAMURA (ILCAA Research Associate)

  “Empty Crucible-Reconsideration on Hydriotaphia”

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

  “Ways of Talking about Non-artificial/artefactual Objects”

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(217KB)

• Date/Time: 14 December 2014 (Sun.) 14:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology)

  “Replication of mask and its effect: The case of Balinese ritual dance topeng legong”

  Michio NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Are animals “non” human?: A discourse on humans, animals, and things”

  All members

  Discussion

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(237KB)

• Date/Time: 9 November 2014 (Sun.) 14:00-19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA

• Akinori KUBO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University)

  “For the Non-Modernist Approach of Material Culture: a Consideration on the Interactions between Men and Softwares in Shogi Denou-sen.”

  Morie KANEKO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Is this waste?: Special reference to behavior to ensete, pots, and school notebooks in Southwestern Ethiopia”

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(216KB)

• Date/Time: 7 June 2014 (Sat.) 14:00‐19:00
• Venue: Room 306, ILCAA
• Language: Japanese

• Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA)

  “Introduction on the Project: New Perspectives of Study on Things”

  Masakazu TANAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “The Material World Learned through Fetishism”

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