Research and Social Activities

My research is focused on Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology, and specifically: human maritime adaptation process, human migration into Island Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands, human maritime exploitation history, and maritime trade history. I have been involved in many research projects in Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Palau, Vanuatu, Tokelau, Federated States of Micronesia, and Okinawa. He has been visiting researcher or collaborator with some national and international laboratories and universities. He is author of more than 60 academic papers, books, and editor of several books both in Japanese and English.

Major publications (books)
Kimura Jun, and Rintaro Ono eds. 2022 Marine Archaeology- Methods and Perspectives. Tokyo: Tokai University Press. (In Japanese)
Ono Rintaro and Alfred Pawlik 2020. Pleistocene Archaeology: Migration, Technology and Adaptation. London: Intech Open.
Ono Rintaro, Kazufumi Nagatsu and Michiko Intoh, eds. 2018. Maritime People in Asia and Oceania. Kyoto: Showado-Press. (In Japanese)
Kimura Jun, Rintaro Ono, and Masashi Maruyama, eds. 2018 Marine Archaeology- Methods and Perspectives. Tokyo: Tokai University Press. (In Japanese)
Ono, Rintaro 2017. Human History of Marine Use and Maritime Adaptation- Archaeology in Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Tokyo: Yuzankaku Press. (In Japanese)
Ono, R., A. Morrison, D. Addison (eds.) 2013. Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions. Terra Australis Volume 39. Canberra: ANU E Press, The Australian National University.
Ono, Rintaro 2011 Marine exploitation and fishing strategies in Celebes Sea: Area Studies in Maritime Southeast Asia. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. (In Japanese)

Head of Audio-Visual Documentation Section, Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties.
He has been engaged in research and safeguarding of the tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Oceania. His cooperation was instrumental in inscribing the Nan Madol site in Federated States of Micronesia on the World Heritage List (2016).

Bibliography

Tomo Ishimura (2021) Issues regarding the protection of intangible cultural heritage related to religion in Japan. In S.-L. Wang, M. Rowlands and Y. Zhu, eds, Heritage and Religion in East Asia, pp. 187-203. Oxon and New York: Routledge.
Tomo Ishimura (2018) Status of UNESCO Conventions related to cultural heritage protection in Oceania. People and Culture in Oceania 33: 73-86.
Tomo Ishimura (2011) An Archaeology of the Lapita Peoples. Keisuisha, Hiroshima. (in Japanese)

Research and Social Activities

Marine anthropology and astronomical anthropology of Oceania and Southeast Asian islands. Research advisor to the Okinawa Churashima Foundation, academic advisor to the Kikai Island Coral Reef Research Institute, and board member of the Okinawa Folklore and Storytelling Resource Center and the Nautical Society of Japan. In addition to supervising the renewal of exhibits and planetarium at the Okinawa Maritime Culture Museum, I am also involved in social activities such as the Ancient boagts restoration Project, and citizen-participatory anthropological planetarium/anthropolium in various parts of Japan.

Main publications

Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago (2021) Routledge, “The Archaeology of Astronomy” (2017) Doseisha, “Introduction to World Mythology” , “Japanese seen from the Sea” (2010), and “Mongoloids across the Sea” (2003) both from Kodansha. Kamehameha the Great” (2008), “Ethnoarchaeology.” (2001) both from Bensei Shuppan, “‘Talking Fish: mythology of eels and snakes in South Seas” (1999) Shogakukan, “Hawaiiand South Pacific Mythology” (1996) and “South Island Mythology” (2001) both from Chuokoron-sha. Edited works include “Ohyashi Taryo ansology : Toward a Reconstruction of Human History” (2022), Arts and Crafts, and others.

Atsushi Nobayashi is a professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. He has been carrying out ethnoarchaeological research in Taiwan, focusing on hunting and farming of the Formosa indigenous peoples. He is also interested in the significances of artifacts and objects made and used by them. He curated Taiwan Collection of the museum and managed some exhibitions on ethnography of the indigenous culture and history.

Career/accomplishments

He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University (2006). After being affiliated with the Faculty of Economics, Hosei University (JSPS Research Fellow PD), he joined the National Museum of Ethnology in 2008. He specializes in social anthropology and Oceania area studies.

His major edited publications include Rethinking History : Perspectives on Recording Media, Practice, and Construction (co-edited with Han Min, Senri Ethnological Studies No.110, National Museum of Ethnology, 2022), The Anthropology of Cheering (Seikyusha, 2020), 60 Chapters for Understanding the History of the Pacific Islands: Relationship with Japan (co-edited with Daichi Ishimori, Akashi Shoten, 2019), Anthropology of Religion and Development: Globalizing Post-Secularism and Development Discourse (co-edited with Daichi Ishimori, Shunpusha, 2019), Comparative Ethnography of : Violence, Ethnic Conflict and Political Confusion in Oceania under Globalization (Shunpusha, 2016), Conflict in Contemporary Oceania: From the Postcolonial Field (co-edited by Daichi Ishimori, Showado, 2013), Development as De-Tradition: The Historical Anthropology of the Fijian Lami Movements (Akashi Shoten, 2009).

Associate Member, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne
Director and PI, Maritime Asia Heritage Survey Project
Professor Feener previously served as Research Leader of the Religion and Globalization Cluster at the Institute of Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and as the Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Prior to that he taught at Reed College and the University of California, Riverside, and has held visiting professor and research fellow positions at Harvard University, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the University of Copenhagen, the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (Honolulu), and the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University. He is the author of numerous books on Islamic studies and Southeast Asian history, as well as on post-disaster reconstruction, religion and development, and other topics.

Specialties in cultural anthropology, ecological anthropology, visual anthropology and Oceania area studies.
I conducted fieldwork on the islands of Papua New Guinea and completed my doctoral dissertation on trade and gift-giving. Alongside my research, I filmed and presented ethnographic visual works. Later joined Visual Folklore inc, a film production company involved in numerous folk films and TV programmes. Present post since 2022.

紹介

日本列島南西端の宮古・八重山諸島から台湾・フィリピン・オセアニア島嶼地域をフィールドとした考古学・人類史研究を専門としています。本プロジェクトでは琉球大学島嶼地域科学研究所の波多野想氏とともに琉球列島における地域文化財とその設定・認定プロセスに注目して調査・研究を行います。通例、文化財は各地域の教育委員会の調査結果などをもって認定されますが、琉球列島の一部地域では地域住民が独自に文化財を設定・認定・資源化する、ボトムアップの文化遺産化・文化財化が見られます。それがどのような背景・メカニズムで生じるかを調べ、文化とその資源化が現在の人々や社会にとってどのような意味を持つかについてアプローチします。

主な研究業績

1.Yamagiwa, K. 2022. Early Human Cultural and Communal Diversity in the Ryukyu Islands. Okinawan Journal of Island Studies, 3(2): 3-15.
2.山極海嗣（2020）「オセアニアの「貝斧」と「石斧」─人の行動の柔軟性と多様性」秋道智彌・印東道子（編）『ヒトはなぜ海を越えたのか―オセアニア考古学の挑戦―』、雄山閣：171-179。
3.Yamagiwa, K. et al. 2019. A possible new oldest pottery group in the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan: Comparative analysis of elemental components of potsherds from the Shiraho-Saonetabaru Cave Site. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 26: 101879-101879.

Area of expertise

Buddhist folklore and material culture studies PhD

Research interests

Material culture transition in Taiwan, Utilisation of archaeological sites in Taiwan, Taiwanese aboriginal crafts as souvenirs

Research and Social Activities

Broadly, my field of interest is plant domestication and dispersals in Asia and the Pacific, crop wild relatives, and the history of plant and human interactions. I have conducted some archaeobotanical work, but my main focus has been phylogeography. Within MAPS I wish to focus on taro (Colocasia esculenta), “giant taro” (Alocasia macrorrhizos) and their near relatives, and plant resources for barkcloth and paper in Southeast Asia and Oceania. To support science communication globally, I manage the Research Cooperative social network (researchcooperative.org). To support food production locally, I work in a community garden in Kyoto.

Selected works

Ahmed, I., P. J. Lockhart, E. M. G. Agoo, K. W. Naing, DV Nguyen, D. K. Medhi and P. J. Matthews (2020) Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia. Ecology and Evolution 10:13530?13543. 2013 Lentfer, C., P. J. Matthews, C. Gosden, S. Lindsay, & J. Specht, Prehistory in a nutshell: a Lapita-age nut-cracking stone from the Arawe Islands, Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania 48, 121-129. Matthews, P. J. (2014) On the Trail of Taro: An Exploration of Natural and Cultural History. (Senri Ethnological Studies 88) National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka, pp. 429. Matthews, P. J., V. D. Nguyen, Q. Fang and C.-L. Long (2022) Colocasia spongifolia sp. nov. (Araceae) in southern China and central Vietnam. Phytotaxa, 541(1): 1-9. Richards, R. and P. J. Matthews (2021). Barkcloth from the Solomon Islands in the George Brown Collection. In J Specht, V Attenbrow, J Allen (eds), From Field to Museum–Studies from Melanesia in Honour of Robin Torrence. Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, No. 34, pp. 245?258. Sydney: The Australian Museum. Spriggs, M. D. Addison and Matthews, P. J. (eds.) (2012). Irrigated Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological, Social and Historical Perspectives. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 363.

Born 1976, Nagano, Japan. Specializes in maritime archaeology. He has passion on exploring the way of life of humans on islands, regardless of time, period or region. Wherever there are archaeological sites there, he will go out to investigate anywhere – whether in tropical jungles, caves, or the bottom of the sea!

Books and other publications:

‘Gaisobo nokigen wo saguru (Exploring the Origins of Cliff Grave Culture)’, in Tosho Vol. 2, 2019 Iwanami Shoten.
Chichukai no suichu bunkaisan (Underwater Cultural Heritage of the Mediterranean Sea). Co-authored, 2020, Doseisha.
Okinawa no suichu bunkaisan – aoi umi ni shizunda rekishi nokakera (Underwater Cultural Heritage in Okinawa – pieces of history in the Blue Sea). Co-edited, 2014 Border Ink.

Articles in academic jounals：

Katagiri, C., Nakanishi, Y., Yoshizaki, S., Kimura, H., Kan, H. (2022) Reconstructing a WWII underwater wreck site: the battle of the destroyer USS Emmons and Japanese Special Attack Airplanes. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, p.1-21.
Katagiri, C., Nakanishi, Y., Yoshizaki, S., Kimura, H., Kan, H. (2022) Reconstructing a WWII underwater wreck site: the battle of the destroyer USS Emmons and Japanese Special Attack Airplanes. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, pp.1-21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2021.2018870 and so on.

Conference Presentations:

‘Teeth adhered with large amount of dental calculus and dental modification recognized in human skeletons excavated from Tamanoa site, Indonesia’. The Anthropological Society of Nippon, 2018.

北九州市立大学社会システム研究科博士後期課程修了、博士（学術）。NPO法人いけま福祉支援センターシマおこし部、（一社）能登里海教育研究所博士研究員を経て、2020年より現職。石川県能登半島の先端に位置する金沢大学能登学舎に勤務。里山里海における人間活動と自然の関わり、生業と生物多様性の関係に関心がある。専門は海洋・島嶼部の地域研究、生態人類学、文化人類学。主な著作に、「よろこびを分かち合う島－バヌアツ共和国の共食文化」（『わける・ためる 生態人類は挑むsession2』寺島秀明（編）、京都大学学術出版会、2021年、115-153頁）、「共生の社会交渉を可能にする資源の所有と分配－バヌアツ共和国メリック島の事例から」（『アジアの未来 私の提案 Toward the Future of Asia:My proposal』3、229-235頁）、「環太平洋域里海文化の相互理解と次世代継承：琉球孤アダンサミット2019」（『金沢大学国際機構紀要』2、2020年、45-59頁）など。

関西学院大学卒、
デンマーク王立アカデミー文化財保存修復技術学院及び王立図書館で学びディプロマ取得

専門領域

・被災重要国家文書の救出保全(アチェ、東日本、フイリピンなど)
・オーストロネシア語族に広く共通するBeaten Bark(叩き樹皮紙/布)調査研究

経歴・業績

総合研究大学院大学文化科学研究科にて博士号取得（2002年）。東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科（助手）をへて、2005年より同志社大学文化情報学部所属。2009年より同志社大学文化遺産情報科学調査研究センター長を兼任。2018年より岡山県真庭市政策アドバイザーに就任。2022年に地方創生、文化資源のDX化と社会資源化促進のベンチャー企業・株式会社SOCRAHを設立、代表取締役社長を兼職。専門は応用人類学、文化情報学、文化・社会遺産論。
主な共編著書に『考古学のためのGIS入門』（古今書院、2001）、『GIS-based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences』（Taylor&Francis、2005）、『近現代考古学の射程-今なぜ近現代を語るのか(考古学リーダー3) 』（六一書房、2005）、『文化情報学入門＜文化情報学ライブラリ＞ 』（勉誠出版、2005）『生きる場の人類学-土地と自然の認識・実践・表彰過程』（京都大学学術出版会、2007）、『経済からの脱出＜来るべき人類学２＞』（春風社、2009年）、『シークワーサーの知恵　奥・やんばるの「コトバ-暮らし-生きものの環」』（京都大学学術出版会、2016年）のほか、論文等多数あり。2004年日本情報考古学会、2010年日本文化財科学会、学会賞を受賞。

After earning a bachelor degree in Archaeology at the University of Hiroshima, his involvement in Micronesia began with his JICA volunteer service at the Pohnpei State Historic Preservation Office from 1991 to 1994. Based on his archaeological investigations in the Roviana region, Solomon Islands, he received a PhD degree in Anthropology in 2012. In 2014, he took the initiative to found the NGO, Pasifika Renaissance (serving as Executive Director), which endeavors to preserve and promote cultural and historical heritage in the Pacific islands to facilitate islanders’ efforts toward the revival of their traditional cultures. His specialties are Oceanic archaeology and area studies and his main fields are Micronesia and the Solomon Islands.

Website: https://pasifika.site/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PasifikaRenaissance
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PasiRena
researchmap (personal): https://researchmap.jp/takuya.nagaoka?lang=en

紹介

これまで主に、日本植民地下の台湾で形成された鉱山の景観について、建築史学の立場から研究を進めてきました。また、文化遺産化（heritagezation）が引き起こすモノの変容や社会的影響にも関心をもち研究を始めています。本プロジェクトでは琉球大学島嶼地域科学研究所の山極海嗣氏と共同で琉球列島における地域文化財とその設定・認定プロセスの調査を実施し、地域住民から生じる文化遺産化（heritagezation）のモデル化を試み、それが引き起こすモノ（文化財・物質文化など）の変容、社会的な影響やその関係にアプローチします。

My interest is to reconstruct the palaeolithic lifeways and prehistoric cultures of the Ryukyu islands.

Takashi Tsuji is an ecological anthropologist, senior regional geographer, and certified social researcher researching mainly in the Philippines, Lao PDR, Indonesia of Southeast Asia, and Ryukyu in Japan. He currently works as a researcher at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Saga University, Japan, and as an administrative assistant for the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. He is also an international advisor of the Southeastern Philippines Journal of Research and Development. He has mainly studied the subsistence activities and social changes of the Molbog and the Pala’wan in Palawan Island, and fishers on Mactan Island in the Philippines. His current concerns are: animal folktales and tidal flats resources use in the Philippines. His English papers include: Common Spider Conch (Lambis lambis) Collecting in Mactan Island, Cebu, the Philippines. The Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 48 (1-2) (2020), Harvesting and Food Culture of Shipworm Tamiluk (Bactronophorus thoracites）in Philippine Mangrove Forests. Aghamtao 29 (2021), The Mouse Deer Being a Trickster in Philippine Folktales. The Southeastern Philippines Journal of Research and Development 27 (2) (2022), etc.

経歴

上智大学文学部フランス文学科卒業。1997年より海工房スタッフとしてドキュメンタリー映像、展示映像、テレビ番組の企画・制作・撮影・編集に携わる。インド洋、東南アジア、オセアニア地域の漁撈、交易、造船、航海にまつわる伝統的な技術と現状を映像記録。

主な海域アジア・オセアニア地域の映像

「海から見えるアジア～アンダマン海に生きる漂海民（ミャンマー）」(2001/テレビ朝日)、自主制作「アジアの海から（1) 毒とバクダン」(2004)、｢トビウオ海道を往く ～赤道直下から日本5000キロ～ (インドネシア､ミクロネシア)｣(2008/ NHK）、「ペットブームの光と影Vol.3 光るメダカの驚異（インドネシア）」（2009/テレビ朝日）、「奇跡の海を行く！僕らの地球大航海（マーシャル諸島）」（2010/日本テレビ）、「航海カヌーの建造記録＜リエン・ポロワット号＞」他 海洋文化館 展示映像（2011?2013）、「体感！グレートネイチャー 魔境! 七色の火山ジャングル～インドネシア・スマトラ島～」（2018/ NHK）。

執筆

「インドネシアの帆走カヌーレース サンデ・レースがかなり気になる」『TARZAN No.461』（2006/マガジンハウス）、「「オセアニアのカヌー」映像記録について（竹イカダ、ザマカウ、ティプノル、航海カヌー」『国際常民文化研究叢書5?環太平洋海域における伝統的造船技術の比較研究?』(2014/国際常民文化研究機構）、「カヌーはヒト、ヒトはカヌー」『月刊みんぱく 10月号』(2022/千里文化財団）。

主な著書

『海のラクダ　木造帆船ダウ同乗記』（中公新書/1980）、『写真集　サハラの岩面画』（日本テレビ出版/1983）、『フィリピン漂海民　～月とナマコと珊瑚礁～』（河出書房新社/1986）
『海賊のこころ』（筑摩書房/1990）、『海が見えるアジア』（めこん/1996）

主な映像作品

「大航海～ヴァスコ・ダ・ガマの道」全11巻(1997-1999)、「パプアニューギニア・ニューアイルランド島から」(2003)、「ミクロネシアの伝統航海術」(2006)、「マダガスカルのカヌー?人類移動の痕跡を求めて」（2009/京都大学総合博物館 学術映像コンペティション受賞）、「大海原を渡った人びと」他、海洋文化館 展示映像全作 (2011-2013)、「オセアニアのカヌー」 (2014、国際常民文化研究機構）、「スギメ?3万年前の大航海徹底再現プロジェクト」(2020/文部科学大臣賞受賞）。

主なテレビ番組

「海から見えるアジア　～アンダマン海に生きる漂海民（ミャンマー）」(2001/テレビ朝日)、「森の中に生きている橋（インド）」(2004/テレビ朝日)、「アラビアの真珠 石油が生んだ巨大楽園島(UAE)」（2005/テレビ朝日）、｢トビウオ海道を往く ～赤道直下から日本5000キロ～ (インドネシア､ミクロネシア､台湾､日本)｣(200年/ NHK）など。