Division of Society and Culture
HAYAMI, Yoko (Professor)
Cultural Anthropology
Research Interests
Over the last 10 years, my research has gradually evolved and transformed
itself due to changes in my own orientation, in the discipline of cultural
anthropology, and in the area I study. In the attempt to bring questions
deriving from changes in my discipline to the study of Southeast Asia in
a meaningful way, my focus has widened both spatially and temporally. What
began as a field-based research in a Karen community in the Northern Thai
hills has extended to upland-lowland relationships in the wider national
and trans-national contexts. More concretely, I have reconsidered some
taken-for-granted oppositions between upland and lowland and Buddhist and
non-Buddhist societies in the region, as well as dichotomous notions regarding
family and gender, taking my research on the Karen people as a starting
point. I have been conducting research on three major themes: 1) religion,
and seeing the upland-lowland relationship through religion and changes
thereof; 2) gender and ethnicity, wherein I question what it means to identify
with a minority ethnic group and to be a woman; and 3) social aspects of
environmental problems and the upland-lowland relationship.
In studying any of these topics, whether I am looking at social phenomena
and transformation within the larger nation-state formation, colonization,
or globalization, my common viewpoint is to look at the local experiences
of such larger processes.
Current research topics:
(1) The historical development of ethnic relationships and mobility in
mainland Southeast Asia, rethinking the upland-lowland axis
(2) Family and gender among a minority ethnic group in the periphery under
social changes
(3) The process of change from ritual practice to the world religions by
a minority ethnic group
(4) Research in Myanmar to provide comparative data on the above topics,
especially religion, family, and gender
Research Activities in 2005 Fiscal Year
- Publication
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- “Who are they/we the Karen?? negotiating ethnic imagery between self and
other” Paper presented at the 9th International Thai Studies Meeting, DeKalb,
Illinois. April 5th. 2005 (Printed on CD-Rom Proceedings) Panel title Redefining
Otherness.
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- Field Research
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- Term:September 5 - 21, 2005
- Area:Karen State and Yangon Division of Myanmar
- Project: Ecological Resource use and Household Strategy in Minority Regions of
Myanmar: Towards Wider Regional Comparison, Scientific Research (Kakenhi)
(B)
- Research Topic:Preliminary study towards research on subsistence and household strategies
in Karen State and Yangon Division of Myanmar
- Term:July 22 - August 2, 2005
- Area: Interviews on the history of the Catholic Church in Myanmar
- Research Topic:Interviews on the history of the Catholic Church in Myanmar
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▲To top of research activities
- Joint Research Project
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- Research Topic:Religion and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwestern
China: Institution, Borders, and Practice
- Term:2003-2005
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Scientific Research (A)
- Leader:HAYASHI, Yukio
- Outline:Christianity, State and Ethnicity in Myanmar
- Research Topic:Ecological Resource use and Household Strategy in Minority Regions of Myanmar:
Towards Wider Regional Comparison
- Term:2004-2006
- Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Scientific Research (B)
- Leader:HAYAMI, Yoko
- Outline:This project aims to conduct research in Myanmar by a team of scholars
with multi-disciplinary background. All participants have research experience
either in Myanmar or in surrounding countries in minority areas, and therefore
have bases for a wide regional comparison.
- No. of Members:8
- Members in CSEAS:1
- Research Topic:The Transformation of the Social Capital: Theoretical Developments Case
Study in Northern Thailand
- Term:2005-2007
- Sponsor:Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
- Leader:Claudio Delang
- Research Topic:National Museum of Ethnology Joint Research Project, "Who are the
'indigenous peoples'? Imminent and emanent forms of indigenous peoples
ideology and its socio-historical background"
- Term:2004 - 2006
- Sponsor:National Museum of Ethnology
- Leader:KUBOTA, Sachiko
- Research Topic:National Museum of Ethnology JCAS "Constructing Area Studies in the
Age of Globalization"
- Term:2004 -
- Sponsor:National Museum of Ethnology
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- Seminar/Symposium
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- Workshop:JSPS-NRCT Core University Program Workshop 2005 "Toward A New Model
of East Asian Society: Entrepreneurship and the Family
- Date:October 14 - 15, 2005
- Place:Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University
- Topic:Toward New Model of East Asian Society, Enterpreneurship and Family - Changing
"Families" in East and Southeast Asia
- Chairperson:HAYAMI, Yoko
- Sponsoer:JSPS-NRCT Core University Program
- Seminar: National Museum of Ethnology Joint Research Project "Who are the
"indigenous peoples"? Imminent and emanent forms of indigenous
peoples ideology and its socio-historical background"
- Date & Time:July 16, 2005
- Place:National Museum of Ethnolog
- Topic:"Who are the Karen? Self Representation as Response and Life Strategies"
- Presentter:HAYAMI, Yoko
- Colloquium:CSEAS Colloquium
- Date:July 11, 2005
- Place:CSEAS
- Topic:"Who Are They/We the Karen? Representation and Life Strategy in the
Case of an Eco-Tourism Village"
- Presenter:HAYAMI, Yoko
- Symposium:Area Studies Consortium Symposium
- Date:July 9, 2005
- Place:Hokkaido University
- Topic:In Session 2: Towards a Structural Understanding of "Hills vs. Plains"
in Southeast Asia '"Hills vs. Plains: Between Discourse and Reality'
- Presenter:HAYAMI, Yoko
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- Outside Activity
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- Lecture: Ashiya Spring Public Lecture Series "Multiplicity of Southeast Asia
- Topic1:"Multi-Ethnic Societies in Southeast Asia: Constitution and Coexistence
of Ethnic Groups" (May 21, 2005)
- Topic2: "Men and Women in Mainland Southeast Asia"(May 28, 2005)
- Place:Ashiya Civic Hall
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- Activity in Academic Association
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- Panel Organizer, Moderator, and Presentation:
- Academic Association:Internationall Thai Studies Conference
- Topic:Panel:Redefining Otherness "Who are they/we the Karen? negotiating
ethnic imagery between self and other"(Panel Organizer, Moderator,
and Presentation)
- Place:DeKalb, Illinois
- Term:April 5, 2005
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