About
I am a Japanese anthropologist doing fieldwork in the Solomon Islands. Especially I have researched focusing on the processes of “ethnic tension” and conflict resolution. Education
- 2006-2016 Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
- 2002-2006 Department of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
Publications
2023 Grinning Villagers, Fidgeting Girls. Minpaku Monthly 47(4): 14-15. (in Japanese)
2023 Looking at the “Ordinary” in the Field: How to Connect Ethnographic Research and Peace Studies, FIELD PLUS 29: 23-25. (in Japanese)
2022 Intersection of Mutual Expectations in the Field: Thinking from “Engagement” between Anthropologist and Local Peoples in Communal Living in the Solomon Islands. Eisei Kurimoto, Isao Murahashi, Miku Ito & Osamu Nakagawa (eds.), The Anthropology of Engagement, pp.227-245, Suita: Osaka University Press. (in Japanese)
2022 We are Both Supervisor and Student, and Equal Research Colleagues. Shinichi Fujii, Hiroko Kawaguchi & Isao Murahashi (eds.), Beyond the Savannah: Essays for the Retirement of Professor Eisei Kurimoto, pp.304-311, Kanazawa: Noto Printing. (in Japanese)
2022 Introduction. Shinichi Fujii, Hiroko Kawaguchi & Isao Murahashi (eds.), Beyond the Savannah: Essays for the Retirement of Professor Eisei Kurimoto, pp.i-vi, Kanazawa: Noto Printing. (in Japanese)
2021 An Ethnography of Peace Generated: “Ethnic Tension” and Ordinarity in the Solomon Islands. Osaka University Press. (in Japanese)
2020 Root crops, Fishes and Shell Money: A Report on Economic Activities in Langalanga, Solomon Islands, Newsletter of the Society for Ecological Anthropology 26: 27-32. (in Japanese)
2020 Insult and Worry: Changes Brought by the COVID-19 in Solomon Islands, Fieldnet Special Site: COVID-19 and Fieldworkers. Field Science Center (FSC), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. (in Japanese)
2020 Coping with Natural Disasters: Ordinarity Considered from their Village Life in Solomon Islands, In Kamimoto Shuji & Okamoto Keishi (eds.), Multi-Graft: Implanting the Anthropological Sensibility, pp.83-93, Fukuoka: Shukousha. (in Japanese)
2019 Museum Exhibit and War: An Outdoor Museum in the Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 60 Chapters for Learning about the History of Pacific, Tokyo: Akashishoten. (in Japanese)
2019 Pacific War for the Indigenous: The Guadalcanalese’ Experiences under the War, 60 Chapters for Learning about the History of Pacific, Tokyo: Akashishoten. (in Japanese)
2019 Shell Money’s Today: From a Field Research of Northeastern Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Newsletter of the Society for Ecological Anthropology 25: 60-66. (in Japanese)
2019 With Experiencing Overconfident, Lose of Confident and Failures: Learning Languages and Research on the Conflict, In Kamimoto Shuji & Okamoto Keishi (eds.), Round About: Intersection of Fieldwork. pp.73-83, Fukuoka: Shukousha. (in Japanese)
2018 Truth Commission and Indigenous Conflict Resolution in Solomon Islands: Strained Relations between Global and Local Norms on Statement Taking of Experiences under the Conflict, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology 82(4): 509-525. (in Japanese)
2018 Comparative Ethnographies on the Indigenous Conflict Resolutions: Towards the “Creative Potential for Peace”, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology 82(4): 482-487. (in Japanese)
2017 [Book Review] SATOMI Ryuju, Ethnography of Dwelling on the Sea: Social Dynamics and Natural Environment in Northern Malaita, Solomon Islands, The Book Review Press (Tosho Shinbun) 3320: 3. (in Japanese)
2017 [Book Review], NIWA Norio & ISHIMORI Daichi (eds.), Conflicts in the Contemporary Pacific, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology 82(1): 98-101. (in Japanese)
2017 Escaping for Peace: How the Northeastern Guadalcanalese Responded to Two Wars, Tenri Bulletin of South Asian Studies 43: 1-19. (in Japanese)
2017 The Characteristics of Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Globalization of Human Rights and the Particularity of Regional Conflict, Journal of Research Office for Human Rights, Tenri University 20: 1-16. (in Japanese)
2016 [Translation] Casper JENSEN & Kjetil RÖDJE, Introduction to Deleuzian Intersections, Gendai Shiso (Revue de la pensée d’aujourd’hui) 44(5): 128-161. (in Japanese)
2016 Fieldworker’s Souvenir: Essay on the Loincloth Made from Tree Bark, FIELD PLUS 15: back cover. (in Japanese)
2015 How to Use the Black Wooden Bowl “Popo” in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Newsletter of the Society for Ecological Anthropology 21: 39-43. (in Japanese)
2015 On the Periphery of Wars: the “Battles” of Guadalcanal and People’s Peace, Quarterly Journal of Ethnology 153: 30-42. (in Japanese)
2015 Pelu Ulu: The Way for Coexistence under the Conflict, Mirai Kyosei: Journal of Multicultural Innovation 2: 229-254. (in Japanese)
2015 [Book Review] ODA Hiroshi & SEKI Yuji (eds.), Anthropology of Peace, Mirai Kyosei: Journal of Multicultural Innovation 2: 318-321. (in Japanese)
2015 How Did Solomon Islanders Live with Conflict?: A Case Study of Daily Life in Northeastern Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, People and Culture in Oceania 30: 21-40.
2014 [Book Review] Morgan BRIGG & Roland BLEIKER (eds), Mediating across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution, Mirai Kyosei: Journal of Multicultural Innovation 1: 376-378. (in Japanese)
2014 The Scope of “Anthropology of Peace”: A Case Study of “Ethnic Tension” in the Solomon Islands, Annals of Human Sciences 35: 107-126. (in Japanese)
2013 [Book Review] Sinclair DINNEN (ed.), A Kind of Mending: Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands, Journal of Japanese Arbitration and ADR 8: 67-70. (in Japanese)
2013 Toward the Comparative Studies on the Contemporary Conflicts: Case Studies of Africa and Oceania, Newsletter from Japanese Consortium for Area Studies 14: 12. (in Japanese)
2012 “Works” of Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission: An Aspect of Social Reconstruction after Conflict, NEWSLETTER of the Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies 104: 12-23. (in Japanese)
2012 [Book Review] KASUGA Naoki (ed.), Anthropology as Reality Critique, Conflict Studies in the Humanities 5: 216-223. (in Japanese)
2012 Why the Government Is Accused?: Examining the Traditional Conflict Resolutions in Solomon Islands, Conflict Studies in the Humanities 4: 155-175. (in Japanese)
2009 [Book Review] Jan Nederveen PIETERSE, Globalization or Empire? [Japanese edition], Conflict Studies in the Humanities 1: 304-311. (in Japanese) Memberships
- 2023 Acting Manager for the Kansai Regional Meeting, Japan Society for Oceanic Studies (from April 2023)
- 2023 The 19th Board in Steering Committee, in charge of academic meeting, The Japan Society for Oceanic Studies (from April 2023)
- 2022 Secretariat, Committee for the 57th Annual Meeting, the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (from Nov 2022)
- 2022 Member of the 19th Election Commission, Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies (from Jul 2022 to Feb 2023)