last modified: December 01, 2010
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 1988 "Ritual, Time and Making Sense", M.A. dissertation, University of London. (→ go to pdf
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