| MITSURU HAMAMOTO | Last modified date：2012.6.28 |
Professor /
Comparative and International Educational Environment Studies
Department of Education
Faculty of Human-Environment Studies
Department of Education
Faculty of Human-Environment Studies
Graduate School
Undergraduate School
E-Mail
Homepage
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/mi-hamamoto/
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Academic Degree
Ph.D. Sociology
Field of Specialization
Cultural Anthropology
Outline Activities
main topic of my research is "the occult imagination and practices in peripheries of globalization" with particular focus on East African coastal societies(Swahili, Mijikenda etc.).
Research
Research Interests
Membership in Academic Society
- Cultural Imaginations in East Africa
keyword : ritual, magic, witchcraft, globalization, neoliberalism, postclonialism, East Africa,
2002.04.
Papers
| 1. | Imaginary power of 'medicine': The notion of 'muhaso' and witchcraft belief among the Duruma of the Coast Province of Kenya.  . |
| 2. | Tricks and Treat: Mimetic production among the traditional healers. . |
| 3. | Belief and Evolutionary Game Theory: Steps to an Ecology of Belief II.  . |
| 4. | Recurrent Violence and the reproduction of witchcraft belief among the Mijikenda, Coast Province of Kenya: a legacy of colonial administration.. |
| 5. | Belief and Wager: Pascal's wager and William James. . |
| 6. | Rethinking Ideology: an anthropological perspective http://anthropology.soc.hit-u.ac.jp/journal/2007/hamamoto07.pdf. . |
| 7. | Describing other people's belief: a pseudo-problem in anthropology. . |
| 8. | Names and the named: an anthropological reflection. . |
- Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
- Japan Association for African Studies
Educational
Educational Activities
1. introduction to anthropological theories with a particular focus on human adaptation to patricular socio-historical environments, with it relation to human knowledge formation.
2. specific topics on ritual and magic, in particular reference to East African ethnographic contexts.
3. Social formations in colonial and post colonial settings, in particular reference to East African Societies.
2. specific topics on ritual and magic, in particular reference to East African ethnographic contexts.
3. Social formations in colonial and post colonial settings, in particular reference to East African Societies.
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