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HAYAMI, Yoko

Professor
Division of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
Cultural Anthropology
B. A. in Liberal Arts, International Christian University, 1981
Ph. D. in Anthropology, Brown University, 1992

Current Research Interests

Ethnic relationships in Mainland Southeast Asia
Family and gender in Southeast Asia
Cross-border migration from Burma to Thailand
Religious practices along the Burma Thailand border

Karen women weaving to their hearts’ content

My research interests have evolved since I began research among the Karen in the Northern Thai hills two decades ago on religion, ethnicity and gender. Changes in my orientation, in the discipline of anthropology and in the region itself have constantly demanded me to reframe my understanding. My focus has gradually widened spatially and temporally from the time of Burma’s colonization and Thailand’s modern nation-building to national policies under the Cold War, and subsequently in the age of globalization, how have the everyday life of the people in the region been transformed? In the past few years, I have also been conducting research on both sides of the Thai-Burma border, looking at religious practices among 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 for “family,” “ethnicity” and “religion.”

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Research Activities in 2011-2012 Fiscal Year

Publications

2012 (Co-edited with Shuhei Kimura and Makoto Nishi) Ningen-ken no Saikouchiku (Reconstituing the Human Domain: Potentialities ofTropical Societies) (Volume 3 of the GCOE Series) . Kyoto University Press.

2012 (Co-edited with Junko Koizumi, Ratana Tosakul, and Chalidaporn Songsampan) The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology and Practice Silkworm Press and Kyoto University Press.

2011. “Pagodas and Prophets: Contesting Sacred Space and Power among Buddhist Karen in Karen State” Journal of Asian Studies.Vol.70 No.4:1083-1105.

2012（Co-authored with Shuhei Kimura and Makoto Nishi) Introduction for Ningen-ken no Saikouchiku (Reconstituting the Human Domain) (Volume 3 of the GCOE Series). Kyoto University Press. Pp.1-18.

2012 Inochi-no-tsunagari he: hirakareru Sinmitsuken (“The Connectedness of Life: the Intimate Sphere Opens up”) in Ningen-ken no Saikouchiku pp.121-150

2012　“Introduction:The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia”. The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology and Practice Silkworm Press and Kyoto University Press. pp.1-26.

2012　“Relatedness and Reproduction in Time and Space: Three Cases of Karen across the Thai-Burma Border.” The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology and Practice Silkworm Press and Kyoto University Press. pp.297-315.

Multi-Lateralaity and the Changing Global Mapping of Soutｈeast Asian Studies: a view from Japan. CAPAS-CSEAS Workshop Proceedings: Exploring Frontiers of Southeast Asian Area Studies: Asian Perspectives. (Proceedings) pp.6-23.

2012 “The intimate and public spheres” “Southeast Asia” “Care” “the body” “connectedness of life” “family” edited by Yasushi Tonaga.(GCOE Volume 6). Kyoto University Press, in Japanese

2011 Ashley South. Ethnic Politics in Burma: States of Conflict. Oxfordshire: Routledge. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies　Vol. 42, No.3: 554-6.

2011．“Burmese Migrants to Thailand: Vignettes from the Border as In-Between Space”　CSEAS Newsletter. No.63. 2011.21-22.

Seminars/Symposia

Name of Seminar：Asian Core Seminar (CAPAS-CSEAS Workshop) Interface, Negotiation, and Interaction in　Southeast Asia　
Date：February 28 - 29, 2012
Place：Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Co-organizer：HAYAMI, Yoko

Name of Seminar：The 35th Southeast Asia Seminar (IAS Chulalongkorn U. and CSEAS Kyoto U.) Transformations of the Human Landscape in Southeast Asia
Date：November 22 - 26, 2011
Place：Mae Sai, Thailand
Co-organizer：HAYAMI, Yoko

Name of Seminar：Asian Core Seminar　（CAPAS-CSEAS Workshop for Young Scholars of Southeast Asian Area Studies EXPLORING FRONTIERS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES: ASIAN PERSPECTIVES）
Date：August　9 - 11, 2011
Place：Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Co-organizer：HAYAMI, Yoko

Name of Meeting： ICAS-AAS joint annual meeting
Date：April 2, 2011
Place：Convention Center, Hawaii, U. S. A.
Panel：“De-institutionalizing Religion in Southeast Asia: Minority Perspectives”
Coordinator/ Chairperson：HAYAMI, Yoko

Activities in Academic Associations

Name of Academic Association：CAPAS-CSEAS Workshop for Young Scholars of Southeast Asian Area Studies EXPLORING FRONTIERS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN AREA STUDIES: ASIAN PERSPECTIVES
Topic：“Multi-Laterality and the Changing Global Mapping of Southeast Asian Studies: a view from Japan”
Place：Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Term：August 9, 2011

Name of Academic Association：International Conference for Thai Studies
Topic：” Pagodas and Wedding Vows: Religious Practices among Buddhist Pwo Karen in Karen State from a Comparative Perspective”
Place：Bangkok, Thailand
Term：July 26, 2011

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