tropical forest

Bird Surveys in Tropical Plantations　[Motoko Fujita]

Posted on 2014/06/02 by nakane

Bird Surveys in Tropical Plantations Motoko Fujita（Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University）　I started researches on birds in plantations in Indonesia in 2007. The main focus was on the avian diversity in acacia plantations of Company M in Palembang with which RISH (Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University) had just started a joint study on acacia. The goal of my research was conservation of the biodiversity by management, as the decrease in biodiversity is a hot issue. Until then, I had been conducting fieldwork only in Japan and this was my first time to do research in Indonesia. I landed at Jakarta airport with a mix of 70% […]

The 46th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

Posted on 2012/07/04 by nakane

The 46th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Our project had a workshop at the 46th annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology. The details are as below: Workshop “Tropical forest and its society – the prospect of an ethnographic study of Sarawak” Date：June 23, 2012（Sta.）９：３０－１２：２５ Venue：G（K１１０） Coordinator：Goro Hasegawa（J.F. Overlin University） Presentation 1 Yumi Kato（Research Institute for Humanity and Nature） “They dynamism of human-nature relationship – a discussion of a case of Sihan” Presentation 2 Kyoko Sakuma（ASAFAS, Kyoto University） “The views on human-forests interactions based on resource utilization – the case of birds’ nest hunting by the Bulawan people” Presentation 3 Tetsu […]