HAYAMI, Yoko
- Professor
- Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
- B. A. in Liberal Arts, International Christian University, 1981
Ph. D. in Anthropology, Brown University, 1992
Current Research Interests
- The historical development of ethnic relationships and mobility in mainland
Southeast Asia, rethinking the upland-lowland axis
- Family in Southeast Asia
- Gender and ethnicity among minority ethnic groups
- Religious movements and Buddhist practice in Burma
My research interests have evolved since I began research among the Karen
in Northern Thai hills two decades ago on religion, ethnicity, and gender.
Changes in my orientation, in anthropology, and in the area have constantly
demanded me to rethink my understanding. My focus has widened spatially
and temporally. From the time of Thailand’s modern nation building to national
policies under the Cold War, and subsequently in the age of globalization,
how have the foundations of life for the people transformed? Representations
of the hill minorities, both by others and by themselves, have gone through
processes of negotiation. Rather than remain at the level of discourse
analysis, I have pursued the taken-for-granted categories of ethnicity
on the ground and in history. In the past several years, I have also been
conducting research in Myanmar, looking at the everyday practices of the
Karen since colonial times. I am pursuing two major topics across the Thailand-Myanmar
border: the ethno-religious movements among the Karen; and the domestic
sphere as a locus of cultural reproduction amid experiences of ethnic conflict
as well as cross-border mobility for labor and refuge. Through these topics,
I aim to reconsider modernist frameworks of “family,” “ethnicity,” and
“religion.”
Research Activities in 2006 Fiscal Year
- Publications
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- Hayami, Yoko. 2007(Jan.). Negotiating ethnic representation between self
and other: the case of Karen and eco-tourism in Thailand. Southeast Asian Studies 44(.3): 385-409.
- Hayami, Yoko. 2007(Jan.). Introduction: Redefining Otherness from Northern
Thailand: Notes Towards Debating Multiculturalism in the Region. Southeast Asian Studies 44(3): 250-274.
- Hayami, Yoko. 2007 (Jan.). Traversing Invisible Borders: Narratives of
Women Between Hills and City. In Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives And Historical Experience (Research
in International Studies Southeast Asia Series), edited by Roxana Waterson, pp.250-274. Ohio University Press and Singapore
University Press.
- Hayami, Yoko. 2006 (Sept.), Towards Multi-Laterality in Southeast Asian
Studies: Perspectives from Japan. In Southeast Asian Studies: Debates and New Directions edited by Cynthia Chou and Vincent Hoube, pp.65-85. IIAS/ISEAS Series
on Asia. Singapore.
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- Joint Research Projects
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- 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: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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