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 2007 Fiscal Year
- Publications
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- Hayami, Yoko Book Review. Mikael Gravers, ed. Exploring Ethnic Diversity
in Burma. Copenhagen:Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2007. xx plus 283
pp. maps tables,photos.Southeast Asian Studies. Vol.46 No.3. December 2008.
471-473.
- Hayami, Yoko ”Changing “Families” in Southeast Asia: Loose Framework, Questions
and Topics” in Proceedings of the CORE University International Workshop Private
Faces of Power and Institutions in Southeast Asia, Vol.2 December, 2007.1-12
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- Joint Research Projects
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- 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
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- Seminars/Symposia
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- Title:The Core University Program , Project 8 "The Changing “Family"
- Date:February 7, 2008
- Place:CSEAS
- Topic:"Polygamy and Quality of Family Life amongst Muslims in the Klang
Valley, Malaysia"
- Presenter:Dr. Shanthi Thambiah （Gender Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences, University of Malaya）
- Organizer: HAYAMI, Yoko
- Title:Core University Program Seminar"Private Faces of Power and Institutions
in Southeast Asia"
- Date:December, 6 - 7, 2007
- Place:Royal City Hotel, Bangkok
- Topic:"Family" and Cultural Reproduction against Mobility and Transience:
Three cases of Karen across the border"
- Presenter & Coodinator:HAYAMI, Yoko
- Organizer:Thammasat University and Kyoto University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
- Co-organizer:Global COE Program "In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere"
- Title: 5th ICAS（International Convention of Asian Scholars）
- Date:August 2nd, 2007
- Place:Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
- Organized panel:Families in Flux: Southeast Asian Families Across Borders and Categories.
- Presentar: HAYAMI, Yoko
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- Activities in Academic Associations
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- Presenter
- Name of Academic Association:106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
- “More or less Buddhist? Sectarian Religious Practices in Karen State, Burma.”
- Topic:Paths Taken and Not Taken in the Anthropology of Buddhism: Assessment of
the Field and Current Directions of Research
- Place:Washington D.C., U.S.A
- Term: December 1, 2007
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