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2025/11/15
#Biocultural Database Link Changed 生物文化データベースのリンクの最新版への変更
Correction to the Sept 9th changesDue to security reasons, Airtable has change its share links.Airtableのデータベースリンクの変更Some of the links on the top page of https://ankei.jp are no more valid,Please use t...
2025/11/13
Nov 13-15) 2025 East Asian Island and Ocean Forum @Amami Ohshima
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Japanese follows. 後ろに日本語があります。ニュージーランドの人類学者 E.P.さんによる、最近のできごとに取材した学術エッセーです。以下のリンク先には、Yeosuの魚市場の写真がありますが、ここではお米（玄米）と野菜はほぼ自給の我が家の食卓に闖入したキムチの写真を載せておきます。https://www.serendipitousencounters.com/single-post...
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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 @
