CURRENT NEWS New! Kyoto Anthropological Research Group - June Meeting Date & Venue: Thursday, 16 June 2011 Kyoto University, Main Research Building 2 4th Floor Meeting Room (AA447) Doors Open: 18:00 Start Time: 18:30 *A small fee of 200 yen is requested for printed materials. The Kyoto Anthropological Research Group is a place for researchers and graduate students in the Kyoto-Kansai area to present their findings on anthropology and other related fields. No advance reservations required. All are welcome to join. Feature: Changes and Survival Among Hokkaido's Kajiya: The Blacksmiths of Rishiri Island and the Fishermen Who Sustain Them Speaker: Professor Takayuki SAITO (Kyoto Bunkyo University Department of Cultural Anthropology) For more information, contact: Kyoto Anthropological Research Group Office inq_kyojinken@hotmail.co.jp 2011 Kyoto Anthropological Research Group Representative: Tatsuro FUJIKURA Kyoto University Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies

OTHER RECENT NEWS New! Publications Humanities in Contact Zones: Volume One -- Problematique (Co-editors: Masakazu TANAKA & Toru FUNAYAMA) Humanities in Contact Zones: Volume Two -- Material Culture (Co-editors: Masakazu TANAKA & Minoru INABA) has been published by Koyo Shobo Co., Ltd. New! Publication For Those Who Study South Asian Society (Co-editors: Masakazu TANAKA & Akio TANABE) has been published by Sekaishisousha Co., Ltd. New! Publication The Lure of Anthropology---50 Years of Kyoto University's Institute for Research in Humanities' Social Anthropology Department has been published by the Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities. New! Publication Contact Zone No.3 has been published by the Kyoto University Press for Research in Humanities through the International Center of Humanities.

New! Publication Healing & Horniness: The Cultural Anthropology of Eros (Written by Masakazu TANAKA) has been published by Chikumashobo Ltd. "From Fuzoku (Adult Entertainment) and Adult Videos to the debate about women's orgasms, this book delves into the possibilities of 'sexual healing' and analyzes the underground culture of contemporary Japanese sex. Where sex seems restrictive and at the same time 'anything goes,' this is a discussion with a cultural anthropological twist. Welcome to the 'Adult World.'" (Excerpt from Press Release) Table of Contents Introduction Part 1 - The Ethnography of Sex Chapter 1 - The Tale of Panpan Chapter 2 - The Transformation of Women Part 2 - Struggles Between Eros and Anti-Eros Chapter 3 - The Sexual Pleasures of Women Chapter 4 - The Sexual Pleasures of Men Part 3 - The Pornography of Iyashi (Healing) and Iyarashii (Horniness) Chapter 5 - "I'm a Hentai!" Chapter 6 - The Universe of the Womb Part 4 - Towards a Global Eros Chapter 7 - The Debate of Women's Orgasms Appendix 1 - The Erotic Voice Appendix 2 - The Festival of Sex Appendix 3 - What is the Cultural Anthropology of Sex? >> Go to Main Menu

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(2002)		Colonialism and Anthropology (in Japanese) was published in 2002. It consists of 21 articles regarding on Asia, Africa and West Indies, and South America. It especially focuses on the Japanese history of colonization in East Asia.	>> Go to Publications
(2002)		My first Japanese monograph on South Asia, Transformation of the Sacrificial World: Historical Anthropology of South Asia was published in 2002. This is a collection of my past 12 articles on rituals, violence and ethnic conflict of Sri Lanka and India.	>> Go to Publications
(2001)		Louis Dumont's major work, Homo Hierarchicus was translated into Japanese. It took me and my co-translator, Prof Kozo Watanabe fifteen years.	>> Go to Publications
		Sacrifice Lost and Found: Colonial India and Postcolonial Lanka, was published in our journal Zinbun. This is based on the analysis of two government reports, on firewalking, hook-swinging (colonial India) and animal sacrifice (postcolonial Lanka) , but briefly refers to the contemporary resurgence of hook-swinging and firewalking in the West, and to "modern primitives".	>> Go to Publications
		Views of the Environment in Asian Countries: Their Relationship to Sustainable Development (Asian-Pacific Center/The United Nations University). This collection of 17 essays is based on the international workshops held in Fukuoka and Kyoto in 1994 and 1995. I have written a short essay entitled Hinoki (Japanese Cypress) Lives Twice, on the animistic world of Tsunekazu Nishioka, a temple carpenter. Among the foreign contributers are David Y.H.Wu(HongKong), Veena Das(Delhi), J.B.Disanayaka(Colombo), Chung Ching-Hong(Seoul), Fernando Zialcita(Manila).	>> Go to Publications
(1999)		Living with Sakti: Gender, Sexuality and Religion in South Asia (co-ed. by Musashi TACHIKAWA and Masakazu TANAKA) Senri Ethnological Studies No. 50 (The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, JAPAN).	>> Go to Publications
		I have written two essays: Introduction on the three Japanese views of India (caste and popular Hinduism) during WWII, and Navaratri Festival in Chidambaram, South India.	>> Go to Publications