ILCAA Joint Research Project

Anthropology of Embodiment: Anthropological Study of Things (4) (jrp000277)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2022–March, 2025

The ILCAA joint research project, “Anthropology of Embodiment (Anthropological Study of Things(4)),” aims to conduct an anthropological studies on human bodies from the perspective of “embodiment,” which focuses on the expanded embodiment as well as its relation with various “things” and environments surrounding bodies. This study will specifically carry out research on physical practice and expression mainly in Asia and Africa from the viewpoint of dynamic aspects of connection between them and varied “things” and environments surrounding actors.

Members

Coordinator

• Ikuya TOKORO

ILCAA Staff

• Emi GOTO
• Aya KAWAI
• Ryoko NISHII
• Yukako YOSHIDA

Joint Researchers

• COKER CAITLIN CHRISTINE
• Yoshihiko GOTO
• Yuko IWASE
• Morie KANEKO
• Yayoi KOTANI
• Takeshi MATSUSHIMA
• Kosaku NAKAMURA
• Hitonaru NISHIE
• Tomoko NIWA
• Takanori OISHI
• Katsumi OKUNO
• Tomohisa SATO
• Momo SHIOYA
• Masayoshi SOMEYA
• Masakazu TANAKA
• Miwako TANAKA
• Tadashi YANAI
• Yoshimi YAMAMOTO

Outputs

Meetings

The 6th meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 17 Nov 2024 13:00–20:30
• Venue: 301

• 13:00–14:40 Tadashi YANAI (Tokyo University)

  “Garden” and the Spinozist notion of “body”

  14:50–16:30 Takanori OISHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “The embodiment of the invisual: A reflections on physicality and playfulness that constitutes the act of fishing”

  16:40–18:20 Kosaku NAKAMURA (National Museum of Japanese History)

  “Significance of the change of form and decoration to face/body in the process of Jomon pottery complexity”

  18:30–20:30

  Meeting for academic exchange by all members

The 5th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 7 Jul 2024 13:00–20:00
• Venue: 306

• Tentative Program

  13:00–14:30 Masayoshi SOMEYA (Hokkaido University)

  “The cognitive capacity of non-neural organisms: some lessons learned from the controversies surrounding their mind and embodiment”

  14:40–16:10 Yuko IWASE (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

  “The cognitive capacity of non-neural organisms: some lessons learned from the controversies surrounding their mind and embodiment”

  16:20–17:50 Morie KANEKO (Kyoto University)

  “Tools and techniques of body for community road constructions in Southwestern Ethiopia (tentative)”

  18:00–20:00

  Reception meeting

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 10 Feb 2024 14:00–20:30
• Venue: 306

• Program:

  14:00–17:30 Hitonaru NISHIE (Kyoto University)

  “Embodied environment, environmentalized body: Metamorphoses of the body following animals”

  17:30–20:30

  Meeting for Academic Exchange (all members)

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 11 Jun 2023 14:00–18:30
• Venue: 306

• Program:

  14:00–16:00 CAITLIN COKER (Hokkaido University)

  “Worlding Bodies- The Limitations and Possibilities of a Dancing Anthropology”

  16:30–18:30 Masakazu TANAKA (Professional Institute of International Fashion)

  “Fashinable Body”

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 20 Nov 2022 14:00–17:45
• Venue: Online meeting

• 14:00–15:45 Yoshimi YAMAMOTO (Tsuru University)

  “Okinawan woman tattooing (Hajichi) to consider based on tools.”

  16:00–17:45 Katsumi OKUNO (Rikyou University)

  “Life and Body, Anthropology in the 20th Century: Bronis? aw, Claude, Tim”

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 12 Jun 2022 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Online meeting

• 14:00–15:00 Ikuya TOKORO（ILCAA）

  Introduction

  15:00–17:00 All members

  Discussion for research plan

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