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*Current Position:
Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University(2003-)
Director, Division of Research, Ritsumeikan University(2008-)
Director, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University(2007-)

*Areas of Interest: Anthropology

*Education:
Ph.D. 2003 Ritsumeikan University
D.E.A. 1976 Universite de Paris VII, l'Ethnologie et la Science des Religions
M.A. 1974 University of Tokyo, in Sociology

[Publications]:
Books
*2006 Towards the Forest of Levi-Strauss's "Mythologiques", Misuzu Shobo, (in Japanese, co-edition with KIMURA Hideo)
『レヴィ=ストロース『神話論理』の森へ』

*2004 Encyclopedia of Basic Books in Cultural Anthropology, Kobundo, (in Japanese, co-edition with TANI Yutaka et al.)
『文化人類学文献事典』

*2003 Levi-Strauss: Structure, Kodansha, 342p. ISBN-10: 4062743523 ISBN-13: 978-4062743525 1575yen [amazon]/[boople] (Japanese)
『レヴィ=ストロース――構造』

*2003 The Birth of Judicial Identity-Registration and Identification in the Civil Society, Tokyo, Gensosha (in Japanese)
『司法的同一性の誕生――市民社会における個体識別と登録』

*2000 African Design: Applique and Rafia Velvet of the Kuba Kingdom in Central Africa, Tokyo, Ribunshuppan (in Japanese, co-authored with FUKUDA Akio)
*1999 International Order and the National Culture at the Turn of the Century, Tokyo, Kashiwa-Shobo, (in Japanese, co-edition with NISHIKAWA Nagao)
『世紀転換期の国際秩序と国民文化の形成』

*1998 Multicultural Societies and Nation States in Asia, Kyoto Jinbunshoin, (in Japanese, co-edition with NISHIKAWA Nagao, YAMAGUCHI Kouji)
『アジアの多文化社会と国民国家』

*1997 Present State of the Multilingualism and Multiculturalism; Canada, Australia and Japan, Kyoto Jinbunshoin (in Japanese, co-edition with NISHIKAWA Nagao, McCormack Gaban)
『多文化主義・多言語主義の現在――カナダ・オーストラリア・そして日本』

*1996 Levi-Strauss, the Structure; Explorers of Contemporary Thoughts, Tokyo, Kodansha, (in Japanese)

『レヴィ=ストロース―構造』



Recent Articles in Japanese(1990-2008)
(Titles are English translations of the original Japanese titles)
*2008 "Levi-Staruss" in History of Philosophy 12, Tokyo, Chuo-Koron Shinsha
*2004 "Societe d'anthropoloie de Paris: the Question of Man at the Transition from the Second Empire to the First Republic", in History of Assosiations, France, (ed. by HUKUI Norihiko), Tokyo, Yamakawa Shuppan
*2003 "Problematics of Historical Anthropology" in Frontiers of Cultural Anthropology (ed. by AYABE Tuneo), Kyoto, Minerva Shobo
*2000 "Reality and Surreality in Anthropological Thinking of Marcel Mauss" in Dissecting the Culture by Imagination-Surrealism and Anthropological Thinking (ed. by Suzuki Masao & Mazima Ichiro), Kyoto, Jinbunshoin
*2000 "From Anthropology to Technology of Government" in Journal of Japanese Association of Ethnology, vol.64 no.4, Tokyo, Japanese Association of Ethnology
*2000 "New Era of Personal Identification" in The Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies, vol.12 no.3, Kyoto, Ritsumeikan University
*1999 "Image of Others: Based on My Research Experience in Africa", The Journal of Group Therapy, vol.15, no.2, Tokyo, Association of Group Therapy
*1998 "The End of Mobutu's Dictatorship and the Formation of the Democratic Republic of Congo: Did They Really Have a Plan of Nation Building?", in The Nation Building of the African Nation States (ed. by HAYASI Koji), Tokyo, Report published by the Institute for Research of the International Affairs
*1997 "Race: Body as Set of Differences" in The Logic of Ethnogenesis, New Perspectives in Anthropology vol.5, (ed. by UCHIBORI Motomitsu), Tokyo, Iwanami-Shoten
*1997 "The Empire and the Race-Anthropological Knowledge in the Colonial Context" in The Sociology of Discrimination (ed. by KURIHARA Akira), vol.3, Tokyo, Kobundo
*1996 "Fingerprints and the State: Interface between the Administration and the Discrimination" in, id., vol.2, Tokyo, Kobundo
*1995 "Register, Passport and Identification Card: The Project of Internal Passport by KAWAJI Toshiyoshi" in The Formation of Nation State in the End of Edo Period and Meiji Era (ed. by NISHIKAWA Nagao & MATSUMIYA Shuji), Tokyo, Shinyosha
*1900 "Forests and Dishes: How Do Healers Become Healers? (Kuba Empire)", pp.2-35 in Namihira, Emiko (ed) May 31, 1990 Culture of Disease: Frontier of Medical Anthropology (Japanese), Kaimeisha, 342p. ISBN-10: 4875251327 ISBN-13: 978-4875251323 2884yen [amazon]/[boople] (Japanese)

Articles in Japanese with English Abstracts
*Watanabe Kozo & Kataoka Minoru March 2008 ""Formation of Researchers on the Basis of Research Projects", a Program of the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Sponsored by Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools in Fiscal 2005 and 2006: Results and Challenges" Ritsumeikan Higher Educational Studies 8:37-54 [abstract]
*February 2006 "Examination of the Field that American Anthropology Came about: Memorandum to Morgan and Indian "Land Claim""
Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture 17(3):115-130 [abstract]


Articles in French(1981-2002)
*2002 "Interroger le Sphynx: Genese et Structure de la modernite identitaire", in La modernite apres postemoderne, Paris, ed. Larose, (ed. par H. Mechonic, M.Watanabe)
*1998 "La logique de narratif dans le proces d'accusation de la sorcellerie a partir d'un cas africain" in Ritsumeikan Studies in Languages and Cultures vol.9, no.5/6(double num.), Kyoto, Ritsumeikan University
*1997 "Interroger le Sphynx: Genese et Structure de la modernite identitaire" in, id.vol.8
*1992 "La royaute et la chefferie: un essai de comparaison au sein d'un royaume (Kuba, Zaire)" Africa 4, Senri Ethnological Studies 31. Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology
*1981 Civilisation du fer et l'epopee orale du Mvett chez les Bulu du Cameroun (avec Prof. Eno-Belinga of Univ. de Yaounde) Universite de Yaounde, roneo.
*1981 Some articles in Rites et fetes des 4 saisons au Japon (colab. Ed. par Laurence Caillet), Paris, POF

Translations from French
*2007 Origine de la maniere de table, Mythologiques ***, par Levi-Strauss, ed. Misuzu, (co-traduction)
*2006 L'Anthropologie et le monde contemporain (conferences faites par Levi-Strauss au Japon), (co-traduction avec KAWADA Junzo), ed. Heibonsha
*2001 Homo Hierarchicus-le systeme de castes et ses implications, par Louis Dumont, ed. Misuzu, (co-traduction with TANAKA Masakazu)
*2000 Le pouvoir sur scene, par Georges Balandier, ed. Chikuma, collection de Poche
*1992 Essais sur l'individualisme, par Louis Dumont, ed. Gensosha,(co-traduction with ASANO Kazuhusa)
*1990 La potiere jalouse, par Cl. Levi-Strauss, ed. Misuzu (Revised edition was published in 1998)
*1988 Le pouvoir sur scene, par Georges Balandier, ed. Heibonsha
*1987 La societe contre l'etat, par Pierre Clastres, ed. Suiseisha
*1978 Introduction a deux theories d'anthropologie sociale, par Louis Dumont, ed. Kobundo

Professional Activities
Conferences
-Invited Speakers
*2008 Hero and Victims in Globalisation (French), at Bergamo University [resume] (French)
-Organiser
*2005 International conference: Ethics, Economics and Law: "Against Injustice" (with A. Sen, M. Nussbaum, Ph. Petit, M.Henaff, P. Pataneik, D. Estrund, co-organisor: GOTOH Reiko)
*2003 Frederic Wiseman's Documentary Project: Film Festival of Wiseman's Works, Anniversary of the Establishment of Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences
*2003 Publicness Towards the 21st Century: Realizing Sen in Theory and Practice: International Symposium in Ritsumeikan University, Anniversary of the Establishment of Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences
*1997 Symposium: "From Technology of Government to the Anthropological Knowledge; Anthropology at the Turn of Century", Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Ethnology
-Chair Person of Executive Committee
*1998 International Symposium:"21st Century World and Multiculturalism /Multi-lingualism; Perspectives from Peripheries", Internatinal Institute in Language and Cuture Studies, Ritsumeikan University (three days Symposium with three guest speakers:Tholin T. Minha, Miliam Silverberg, and Gian Prakash)
*1997 Symposium: "History as Arena:Cultural Encouter of the Oral and the Written",with Professor Natalie Zemon Davis, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
*I participated in many other conferences as a speaker.

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