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2024/06/17
6/17-21) コンゴ民主共和国のキサンガニ大学でバンツー拡散と大河川シンポでの招待講演(本文は英仏)English-Français
14 Nov 2023. The conference in January will be postponed to 17-21 June 2024, due to turmoils occurring in Kisangani during the Presidential Electoral campaign. This is a tentative version of our speec...
2024/01/04
The Biodiversity of Nagashima Island, Setouchi Inland Sea, Japan.(October, 2001)
This page is a mirror for https://www.esj.ne.jp/chugokushikoku/research.htmlThe texts in the pdf are in Japanese except for this page for the contents, The Biodiversity of Nagashima Island, Setouchi ...
2023/12/20
Adopted in a village of Maniema: How we began our fieldwork in the RDC
Français ci-dessous.Adopté dans un village du Maniema : Comment nous avons commencé notre travail de terrain en RDC Ankei Yuji and Ankei TakakoIn 1978, our first trip abroad was to Afr...
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ANKEI Yuji
I have been interested in the relationship between human life and the environment. Starting from 1974, I studied anthropology under the supervision of the late Professor ITANI Junichiro of Kyoto University. together with my wife Takako, who specializes in botany and ecology, I have been engaged in field surveys in Iriomote and other islands in southern Japan (2 years), in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other countries of tropical Africa (3 years). We also stayed in Paris, France (2 years) and in Pamplona, Spain (5 months). Recently, we have occasionally visited Taiwan. I began my career teaching cultural anthropology and Japanese folklore in Okinawa University, cultural anthropology in Yamaguchi University, and area studies in Yamaguchi Prefectural University. After retirement in 2017, I created a private association named "Institute for Biocultural Diversity" for which my wife and I are the only members as of now.
Languages: Japanese, Swahili, English, French etc.
Hobby: Organic cultivation and playing ocarina
Major publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yuji-Ankei-2
https://ci.nii.ac.jp/nrid/9000002261491
Recent works on databases for biocultural diversity.
Songola Heritage, D. R. Congo:
https://sites.google.com/view/songolaheritage-eg/
Iriomote Island Biocultural Database:
https://aiiriomote.wixsite.com/mysite
Biocultural Database for Yonaguni Isl.:
https://dunanmunui.wixsite.com/my-site
Contact: mail to y(a)ankei.jp replace (a) for @