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2024/09/16
Inochi and Ndu)The notion of life among the Japanese and Igbo people of Nigeria
Ankei Takako and Yuji Ankei wrote two articles having the same title: Ki ni mo Inochi ga aru, meaning "Even trees have lives". The first was from Iriomote Island, Japan (https://ankei.jp/yuji/?n=2711)...
2024/06/19
Banturivers) Questions + réponses
Addenda 1 Juillet 2024Anglais et japonais ci-dessous.Quelques questions sur notre présentationQuelles sont les plantes Songola qui changent de nom en grandissant ?---ka.méma, un arbre rustique, en est...
2024/06/17
Banturivers) presentation files (pdf, youtube etc.) for Yuji & Takako Ankei
Corrections.15 Juin 2024. Correction sur le page 14 Lisez Binja sud au lieu de Binja nord pour la langue D26.16 juin 2024. Addendum. Recensement des participants au marché de troc de Bukindi (Songol...
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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 @