Courses (graduate)

1. The concept of phytoanthropology

2. Getting to know about viruses

3. Around The Hidden Half of Nature (Montgomery), part 1

4. Around The Hidden Half of Nature (Montgomery), part 2

5. Viruses, animals and us, part 1

6. Viruses, animals and us, part 2

7. On biomimicry, part 1

8. On biomimicry, part 2

9. Plants, infectious diseases and biopower

10. Biomimicry and art

11. Rethinking multispecies ethnography

1. Getting to know about plants

2. The botany of Francis Hallé

3. Perspectivism + biosemiotics

4. Anthropology of plants of Lowland South America 1

5. Anthropology of plants of Lowland South America 2

6. Anthropology of plants of Lowland South America 3

7. Anthropology of plants of Lowland South America 4

8. From phytoanthropology to contemporary reflections

9. Around Tim Ingold

10. The art of Andy Goldsworthy

11. Approaching biomimicry

1. Introduction

2. The flame of a candle (Bachelard) as a starting point

3. Theories of four and other elements

4. Reappraisal of 19th century anthropology: Edward B. Tylor

5. Aboriginal Australia

6. Siberia

7. South America

8. East Asia

9. Nature and music

10. Jean Rouch: Ciné-anthropology of nature

11. Robert Gardner's material motives

12. Nature as unconsciousness (Gilles Clément's gardening theory)

1. Introduction

2. "Forest" as a social place

3. Plants as sentient and living beings

4. Views on plants from Ancient Greece to the 18th Century Europe

5. Analogism and plants

6. Animism and plants

7. Plant intelligence

8. Phytosemiotics and plant neurons

9. Life and sex: plants' perseverance in their being

10. Food, drugs, and poisons

11. Plant subjectivity and plant design

12. Rethinking the nature from plants' perspective

1. Introduction to affects: from moving images to concepts

2. Emotions in animals (Darwin)

3. From emotions to expressions

4. Emotions and the "cultural"

5. Emotions/affects and psychotherapy

6. Emotions/affects and ethnographic fieldwork

7. Linguistic anthropology on emotions

8. Emotional labor and affects

9. Connected bodies

10. Cinema, emotions, affects

11. Emotions, respiration, art (by Tanaka)

12. Landscape and affects (by Chen)

13. Spinoza and anthropology

1. Introduction

2. Anthropology of nature and body

3. Shinsuke Ogawa and the Magino films

4. Brain and language

5. Biological background of emotions

6. Body, senses, and ethnography

7. Revisiting von Uexküll

8. Microbiological worldviews

9. Sociality among animals and humans

10. Energy and the humanity

11. Knowing about ecological embryology

12. Politics of natural beings

13. Nature, meanings, and thoughts

1. Introduction

2. Visual images (1): vision for action

3. Visual images (2): vision and art

4. Auditory images and multi-sensory perception

5. Synesthesia

6. Odor and taste as immediate perception

7. Approaching ethnography of sensory images

8. Rethinking sociality (1)

9. Moving images and the senses

10. Brain and sex

11. Rethinking sociality (2)

12. Conclusion: neuroscience, anthropology and Bergson's Matter and Memory

1. Introduction

2. Risk, Modernity, State

3. To live with nuclear power facilities around

4. Coastal Fukushima: Historical Background

5. Anthropology of nuclear accidents: Chernobyl and Fukushima

6. Between refuge, distance and return

7. Central Fukushima: Radioactivity, image and mental health

8. Science among citizens

9. Abukuma Plateau: Nature, animals, humans

10. Sharing stories: volunteers, community and tourism

11. "Recovery" and economy

12. Thinking from the place/ground

13. Possible futures, possible anthropologies

1. Introduction

2. Body-sense-nature

3. Communicating bodies [Case: Soccer training in Porto, Portugal, by Y. Aihara]

4. From Kinship Theory to the Theory of Social Body [Case: Jewish kinship in Buenos Aires, by A. Udagawa]

5. Body in variation

6. Imagined body, possible body [Case: Ballet dancers in Bangkok, by K. Ideta]

7. Nature, land, power

8. "Animism" and "analogism"

9. Physiocracy as a bifurcation point

10. Struggle of natures: knowledge, power, perspectives [Case: Seto Inland Sea, by I. Tsurita]

11. To the Outside

12. Body-in-Nature / "Pauses and Interruption: Conversations with the Other" by B. Voelcker

13. Lived nature [Case: Classical musicians in Cuba, by R. Tanaka]

1. Ethnographies (1)： Classical Music in Cuba (Rieko Tanaka), Classic Ballet in Thailand (Keiji Ideta), Shishimai in Matsumorimachi, Hirosaki (Irina Grigore)

2. Ethnographies (2)： Paper-cutting in Huangtu Plateau, China (Tomoko Niwa)

3. Discussions, with special emphasis on Arnd Schneider's recent works

4. Experimental filmmaking and anthropology (with Becca Voelcker)

5. Art Practices (1)：Min Tanaka＋Children Dance Performance "The air has fallen down" (Irina Grigore) *

6. Art Practices (1)：Exhibition "Window Flowers: Chinese Paper Cutting in Huangtu Plateau" (Tomoko Niwa) *

7. Workshop (1): Tanaka, Ideta, Grigore and Yanai*

8. Workshop (2): Arnd Schneider "Dialogues between Contemporary Art and Anthropology: Future Challenges" (98th Contemporary Anthropology Workshop at the University of Tokyo)

*with the participation of Professor Arnd Schneider (Oslo University)

This was not an ordinary graduate course, but a series of activities we organized, stimulated by Arnd Schneider's visit to our group.

1. From the anthropology of "culture" to the anthropology of "media"

2. Rethinking words as media

3. Orality: images and words

4. Writing, speaking and the internal speech

5. Camera and Man

6. Using cameras in ethnographic fieldwork (Irina Grigore)

7. Jean Rouch and his shared anthropology

8. Rouch between Africa and France

9. On Rouch's Dionysos

10. "Video nas aldeias": a new way to practice shared anthropology

11. Anthropology of image reception

12. Image and technoscience

13. Virtual worlds

1. The Late Foucault and Anthropology

2. On war, law and power

3. Foucault of "small stories"

4. "Pierre Riviere": book and film

5. Biopower

6. Government, pastoral power and counter-conduct

7. Phenomenological economics

8. Neoliberalism

9. Foucault in the 80s

10. Self, asceticism and writing

11. Kant, revolution and enlightenment

12. Truth, subject and cynicism

1. To do ethnographic fieldwork is to work on "affectio" and "affectus"

2. On Powdermaker, Stranger and Friend (1)

3. On Powdermaker, Stranger and Friend (2)

4. On Devereux, From Anxiety to Method in Behavioral Sciences

5. Around Rouch ("The Camera and Man" and his films)

6. Filming and Writing in Gregory Bateson

7. On ethics (by M. Kelly)

8. Latour, Laboratory Life

9. Doing fieldwork in a ballet studio (by K. Ideta)

10. Architecture

11. Reflexivity (by T. Niwa)

• 1. Bateson and Mead in Bali and Birdwhistell

  2. Alan Lomax (choreometrics), Alison Jablonko

  3. Joseph Tobin's Video-cued Multivocalic Ethnography

  4. Games and Culture

  5. Translation as Cultural Transformation - Feature Films as Cultural Documents

  6. Visualizing Emotion and Ignoring It

  7. Feedback from the Field

  8. Ethnographic Films

*This course was done by Professor Karl Heider, visiting professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology (spring-summer 2012)

• 1. Introduction

  2. From ciné-transe to "Video nas Aldeias"

  3. Encounter of the Two Worlds

  4. Edo ergo sum

  5. Lévi-Strauss' Heritage

  6. Descola's "Anthropology of Nature"

  7. Naturalism/Multinaturalism (on Viveiros de Castro)

  8. Kinship and Beyond (on Viveiros de Castro)

  9. Economy of the "House"

  10. On Amazonian Indian Movements

  11. Cotemporary Indigenous Societies (1)

  12. Cotemporary Indigenous Societies (2)

  13. Indigenous Culture and Art

1. The Problem

2. Economy as an Immanent Category

3. On Graeber's Anthropology of Value

4. Around L'Opinion et la foule (Tarde)

5. Puissances de l'invention (Lazzarato)

6. Les lois de l'imitation (Tarde)

7. Thinking about the Peasantry with Raymond Depardon's Films

8. On M. Strathern (by R. Satomi)

9. On "Mingei" (by Cheng)

10. On Football （by Aihara)

11. More on Les lois de l'imitation (Tarde)

12. Fetish Market in Cuzco (by T. Okamoto)

13. Imagining Economic Anthropology through Tardian Sociology (special conference, by O. Nakagawa, Osaka University)

1. Focusing the Subject

2. Aesthetics, Field, Images

3. Sounds and Images (Feld)

4. Problem of the Style (Bateson)

5. Aboriginal Art

6. S. Yanagi's "Mingei"

7. Orality, Literacy and Art

8. Robert Gardner vs. Werner Herzog

9. On China (by T. Niwa)

10. Alfred Gell

11. Oceanic Art

12. Ethnography of an Art Festival (by T. Fujimoto)

13. Concluding Discussion: Art-Anthropology

1. Law and flesh

2. On Titicut Follies

3. On Welfare

4. On Basic Training

5. On Model

6. On Zoo

7. On Meat

8. On Public Housing

9. Reflections for the second part

10. On Juvenile Court

11. On Aspen

12. On Ballet

13. On Deaf

14. On Central Park

15. On State Legislature

1. Method of Subtraction

2. Surrealism, Collage, Collection

3. Revisiting Jacobson (on the Materiality of Signs)

4. Thinking about the "levels of authenticity"

5. Lévi-Strauss and Politics

6. The Sadness of "Tristes Tropics"

7. From Nature to Culture and Back to Nature

8. Nature and Technique (Lévi-Strauss vs. Heidegger)

9. Mythical Thinking （Lévi-Strauss vs. Bergson)

10. From Myth to Music

11. Seeing through the Ruins

12. Toward the Music of the Concrete

Anthropology and Photography

• 1. Images and Cultures

  2. Photography in the Field

  3. Family Photographs and Postcards

  4. What is Photography?

  5. Malinowski and Lévi-Strauss

  6. Gregory Bateson

  7. Sociology and Documentary Photography

  8. Photography and Built Environments

  9. Photo-anthropology of the Dwelling

  10. Studying Urban Anthropology by Visual Methods

Anthropology and Film

• 1. Introduction to Moving Images

  2. Two Poles of Ethnographic Films

  3. Making Ethnographic Film

  4. Moving Images as Research Materials

  5. Navajo Films

  6. Capturing Life (Rouch, Perrault)

  7. Filming the Memory (MacDougall)

  8. Images without Words (Gardner)

  9. Non-Essentialist Description of Institutions (Wiseman, MacDougall)

  10. Anthropology and Documentary Films

1. Problem of Dwelling

2. Von Uexküll and Heidegger

3. Place in Archaeology (Tilley)

4. Place in City (Berque)

5. Sound and Place (Feld)

6. Narration and Place（Basso)

7. Place as Ruin (Stewart)

8. Cosmological Place (Arhem)

9. Place and Architecture

10. Peasants and Painters (Nogue i Font)

11. Dwelling/Wandering (Guzzoni)

12. Domestic Space (Lofgren)

13. Public Places (Low)

14. Past and Present of the City (Jinnai)

15. Urbanism and Life (Holston)

16. Occupation and Exclusion (Caldeira）

17. Anthropology of the Urban