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2025/03/09
(#RIHN #LINKAGE Seminar) #Drifters to #Yonaguni Island: The Shock Wave of the Encounter with Drifters from #Jeju Island in 1477 @ #Ishigaki Island, #Yonaguni Island, and #Iriomote Island
RIHN LINKAGE SeminarThe Memory of the People is Revived Now: The Islanders Themselves Visualize the Tradition202509 Mar (Sun) 15:00-17:30 Ishigaki City Health and Welfare Center12 Mar (Wed) 18:00-20:3...
2025/03/04
RIHN LINKAGE Seminar) Impact of Jeju Drifters Oral Tradtion in Yonaguni, Ryukyu Arc
We are going to talk 20 minutes (online) in a general meeting of the LINKAGE project of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature between 4 and 5 March 2025.This session is not open to the public...
2025/02/15
DRCongo) Origins and Languages of the Songola-Kuko of Maniema (Fieldnote of 1983) (Swahili original and its abstract in English and French)
This is to notify the diversity of ethnic origins of a group speaking the same Bantu language.Il s'agit de notifier la diversité des origines ethniques d'un groupe parlant la même langue bantoue.Oral ...
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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 @
