“Human economy is already everywhere” (Keith Hart). This symposium will comparatively examine ethnographic cases—including debt and prestige in Muslim societies of southern Thailand, cash-crop cultivation and financial practices in rural Laos, social currencies in urban markets of Burkina Faso, and bridewealth in pastoral societies of Kenya—to explore how human relationships are created, reorganized, and sometimes dissolved within commercial relations, and to reconsider the possibilities of the “human economy” in the contemporary world.
| 2026/03/09 | ||
| 17:00 - 17:10 | Opening remarks | |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Rethinking the Human Economy | Yutaka Sakuma(Meiji University) |
| 17:45 - 18:25 | Social Ostentation, Largess and Debt in a Hierarchical Society in Southeast Asia as Drivers of Social Regulation and the Gain of Political Power | Pierre Le Roux(University of Strasbourg) |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Human Economy Intertwined with Commercial Economy: Farmers’ Escape from Moneylenders in the Coffee-Growing Areas of Lao PDR | Arihiro Minoo(Waseda University) |
| 19:15 - 19:45 | Social Currencies and Human Economy: Insights from Bargaining in African Popular Marketplaces | Adoplhe Badiel(University of Strasbourg) |
| 19:50 - 20:10 | Exploring the Human Economy through Bridewealth Practices in “Elopement Marriages”: A Case Study from East African Pastoral Societies | Manami Hayashi(JSPS；Meiji University) |
| 20:15 - 20:45 | Comment | Francis Kern(University of Strasbourg) |
| 20:45 - 21:45 | General Discussion | |
| 21:45 - 22:00 | Closing remarks | Aggée Célestin Lomo Myazhiom(University of Strasbourg) |
Time: 9:00〜14:00 (CET) / 17:00~22:00 (JST)