Yumiko TOKITA-TANABE
(Specially Appointed Associate Professor)

Education

1982-1984 The United World College of the Atlantic, United Kingdom.
1984-1987 B.A. in Japanese and Linguistics, the School and Oriental African Studies, University of London.
1987-1988 M.A. in Social Anthropology, the School and Oriental African Studies, University of London.
1989-1991 M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, the University of Tokyo.
1992-2000 Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, the University of Tokyo.

Degrees

B.A. in Japanese and Linguistics (First Class Honours), the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
M.A. in Social Anthropology (with Distinction), the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, the University of Tokyo.
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, the University of Tokyo.

Posts

1995-1997 Graduate Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.
1997-2000 Post Graduate Research Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.
2007-2010 Specially Appointed Assistant Professor of Globa Collaboration Center, Osaka University.
2010- Specially Appointed Associate Professor of Globa Collaboration Center, Osaka University.

Field of Research

Anthropology, South Asian Area Studies, Gender Studies.

Research Interests

Women's Empowerment in South Asia

Keywords

Women, Gender, Body, Agency, India, Orissa

Membership of Professional Associations

The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

Publications and Presentations

2003 "Introduction" (co-authored with A. Tanabe), in Y. Hayami, A.Tanabe & Y. Tokita-Tanabe eds. Gender and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific. Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press, pp.1-16.
2003 "Aesthetics of the Female Self: Modernity and Cultural Agency of Urban Middle-class Women in Orissa", in Y. Hayami, A. Tanabe & Y.Tokita-Tanabe eds. Gender and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific. Kyoto and Melbourne: Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press, pp.167-188.
2000 Body, Self and Agency of Women in Contemporary Orissa, India. Ph.D. Thesis, the University of Tokyo (→ go to pdf )
1999 "Play and Eros: Girls' Swing Play and Swing Songs in Orissa, India", Journal of Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, No.11, pp.25-50. (→ go to pdf )
1999 "Structure, Process and Memory: Continuity and Reproduction of Japanese Household Organisation (ie)", Zinbun No. 33, pp. 129-156.
1999 "Women and Tradition in India: Construction of Subjectivity and Control of Female Sexuality in the Ritual of First Menstruation", in M. Tachikawa & M. Tanaka eds. Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia. Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies, pp. 193-220.
1998 "Problem of Subaltern Agency: Towards Thinking about Women as Subjects and Agents in Rural Orissa", presented at Institut fur Ethnologie, Freie Universitat Berlin.
1998 "Becoming a 'Big Girl': Menstruation and Socialisation of the Girl Child in India", presented at Session: The Growth and Development of the Girl Child, 14th Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsberg, U.S.A.
1998 "Disappearance of Play among Children in Contemporary India", presented at Session: Children without Childhood in Our Contemporary Society, 14th Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Williamsberg, U.S.A.
1998 "Women's Life Style, Women's Life Course: Ritual, Cosmology and Social Interaction in Village Orissa", presented at International Conference "Rethinking Orissa: Society, Culture, History", Bhubaneswar, India.
1996 "Village Politics and Women: Towards a Gendered Analysis of 'Faction' in Rural Orissa", Journal of Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, No.8, pp. 90-122. (→ go to pdf )
1994 Review "The Interpretation of Caste. Quigley, D. Oxford Clarendon Press," co-authored with Akio Tanabe, Developing Economies 32/2.
1993 "Transformation of the Goddess: Ramachandi Festival in Orissa, India", co-presented with Akio Tanabe at South Asia Workshop, University of Chicago.
1993 "State Laws and Village Customs: Marriage and the Construction of Identity in Eastern India", presented at the 92nd American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington D.C.
1990 "From 'Succession Practice' to 'Succession in Practice': Rule, Positional Structure and Process in Japanese Household Organisation", M.A. dissertation, the University of Tokyo (→ go to pdf )
1988 "Ritual, Time and Making Sense", M.A. dissertation, University of London. (→ go to pdf )