The Department of Regional Studies (23)
Faculty
(as of April 1, 2011, in alphabetical order)
The Department of Regional Studies
Department Chair: KUBO Masatoshi
| ASAKURA Toshio | Social structures in East Asia, Korea, Japan |
| HAYASHI Isao | Social structure, cosmology, risk and disaster; Melanesia, Polynesia, Japan |
| IKEYA Kazunobu | Environmental anthropology, cultural geography; Southern Africa, Japan |
| INTOH Michiko | Prehistory of Oceania; Oceania; Island Southeast Asia |
| KONAGAYA Yuki | Cultural ecology and cosmology; Central Asia, Mongolia |
| KUBO Masatoshi | Ethno-informatics, media and culture, computer ethnology; Australia |
| MINAMI Makito | Ecological anthropology; South Asia |
| MIO Minoru | Religious anthropology; South Asia, India |
| MISHIMA Teiko | Anthropology, international migration; Senegal, West Africa |
| MORI Akiko | Cultural anthropology, ethnography of central Europe, Germany, Austria, Japan |
| NISHIO Tetsuo | Linguistics, Arab culture, Middle East, North Africa |
| NOBAYASHI Atsushi | Ethnoarchaeology, material culture, Austronesian cultures; East Asia, Formosa |
| SAITO Akira | Ethnohistory; Latin America |
| SASAKI Shiro | Socioeconomic history of reindeer-breeders and forest hunters; Northern Asia, Siberia |
| SATO Koji | Architectural history, ethno-architecture; Southeast Asia, Oceania |
| SHINMEN Mitsuhiro | Science of religion; Eastern Europe |
| SUDO Ken'ichi | Social Anthropology |
| TAKEZAWA Shoichiro | Afirican history; history of anthropological thought; West Africa |
| TAMURA Katsumi | Cultural anthropology; Southeast Asia, East Asia |
| TSUKADA Shigeyuki | Ethnohistory; Southern China |
| UDAGAWA Taeko | Cultural anthropology, gender studies; Italy, Mediterranean Europe |
| YASUGI Yoshiho | Linguistic anthropology, writing systems; Mayan civilization; Mesoamerica |
| YOKOYAMA Hiroko | Cultural anthropology, Chinese society and culture |
The Department of Comparative Studies
Department Chair: TERADA Yoshitaka
| FUKUOKA Shota | Ethnomusicology; Southeast Asia, Indonesia |
| HAN Min | Social anthropology; China |
| HIRAI Kyonosuke | Economic anthropology, anthropology of work; Southeast Asia |
| KAWAGUCHI Yukiya | Contemporary African art, cultural representation in display; Sub-Saharan Africa |
| KIKUSAWA Ritsuko | Linguistics, Austronesian languages |
| KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro | Cultural anthropology, Inuit studies, anthropology of marine resources |
| KOBAYASHI Shigeki | Museum science, cultural anthropology |
| KONDO Masaki | Folk materials, folklore; Japan, Europe |
| MATTHEWS, Peter J. | Ethnobotany, prehistory, crop plant biogeography; Asia, Pacific |
| NAKAMAKI Hirochika | Japanese religion, Brazilian company culture; Japan, U.S.A., Brazil |
| SASAHARA Ryoji | Folk culture, performing arts; Japan |
| SEKI Yuji | South American archaeology, cultural anthropology |
| SHIRAKAWA Chihiro | Cultural anthropology, Anthropology of development |
| SHOJI Hiroshi | Finno-Ugric linguistics, ethnolinguistics; language policy; Northern Europe, China |
| SONODA Naoko | Conservation science |
| SUGIMOTO Yoshio | Social anthropology; Sri Lanka, South India |
| SUZUKI Motoi | Anthropological Perspectives on Development Assistance Evaluations |
| SUZUKI Nanami | Cultural anthropology, Culture of medicine, life-design studies, American and European medieval social history |
| TERADA Yoshitaka | Ethnomusicology, performing arts of Asia |
| YAMAMOTO Yasunori | Museum informatics |
| YOSHIDA Kenji | Anthropology of expressive culture; Africa, Europe, Japan |
| YOSHIMOTO Shinobu | Textile arts and technology; Asia, Africa, America, Europe |