The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

Seminars, Symposia, and Academic Conferences

March 19, 2018（Monday） ～March 21, 2018（Wednesday）
《International Symposium and Special Research Project of the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan》Human Relationships with Animals and Plants: Perspectives of Historical Ecology

Tending the water buffalo in village landscape with taro
(painting by Duong, Vietnam)

  • Date: March 19, 2018 (Monday) - March 21, 2018 (Wednesday)
  • Venue: Conference Room 4, National Museum of Ethnology (NME)
    (Capacity: 60 people (entrance free))
  • Languages: Japanese & English (Simultaneous interpreters provided)
 

Program

March 19 (Monday), Day 1
9:30 - Registration
10:00 - 10:05 Opening Remarks
Kenji YOSHIDA
Director General, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan (NME)
＜Introduction: Theoretical Framework＞

Chair: Ikeya (NME) and Kishigami (NME)

10:05 - 10:40 “Human History, Civilization, and Multiple Historical Ecologies”
Kazunobu IKEYA (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
10:40 - 11:25 “Comparison of Amazonia and Japan from the Framework of Historical Ecology”
William BALÉE (Tulane University, USA)
11:25 - 11:50 Discussion
11:50 - 12:50 Lunch
＜Session topic: Asian Perspectives in Historical Ecology＞
Part 1: Contemporary Human-Animal Interaction in East Asia and Japan

Chair: Scott Eliot SIMON (NME, Université d’Ottawa, Canada)

12:50 - 13:35 “Examining the Chase-away Response to Crop-raiding Animals”
John KNIGHT (Queen’s University Belfast, U.K.)
13:35 - 14:05 “Hunting and Raising Activities of Wild Boars in the Ryukyu Islands: Study of Their Domestication”
Yaetsu KUROSAWA (Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan)
14:05 - 14:35 “Human Impact on Inland Water Fisheries and the Subsistence Strategy of Cormorant Fishermen”
Shuhei UDA (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
14:35 - 14:45 Comment
Shiro SASAKI (The Preparatory Office for National Ainu Museum, Japan)
14:45 - 15:05 Discussion
15:05 - 15:20 Break
Part 2: Contemporary Human-Animal, Human-Plant Interactions in South and Southeast Asia

Chair: Atsushi NOBAYASHI (NME)

15:20 - 16:05 “Gayal and Human Relationships in the Forest in Bangladesh”
Md. Omar FARUQUE (Bangladesh Agricultural University)
16:05 - 16:35 “Floodplain Farming and Shifting Cultivation in the Peruvian Amazon: Case of the Shipibo People”
Mariko OHASHI (Hitotsubashi University, Japan)
16:35 - 17:05 “Use of Sago Palms and its History in Borneo: A Case of Penan Hunter-Gatherers”
Miyako KOIZUMI (Kyoto University Museum, Japan)
17:05 - 17:10 Comment
John KNIGHT
17:10 - 17:45 Discussion
 
March 20 (Tuesday), Day 2
＜Session topic: Comparative Perspectives in Historical Ecology＞
9:00 - Gathering of participants
Part 3: The History of Tropical Cultural Forests

Chair: Uda (NME)

9:30 - 10:15 “The Neolithic that Never Happened: The Tenuous Line between Cultivation and Agriculture in Ancient Amazonia”
Eduardo G. NEVES (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
10:15 - 10:45 “Bamboo Culture in Monsoon Asia: From Perspectives of the Hmong Farmer in the Hillside Area of Northern Thailand”
Shinsuke NAKAI (Saga University, Japan)
10:45 - 11:15 “Taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Asia and the Pacific: Models for Domestication as a Food and Fodder Crop”
Peter J. MATTHEWS (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
11:15 - 11:45 “Does a “Cultural Landscape” Exist in the Forest Landscapes of the Congo Basin?: From the Case Study in the Lower Reaches of the Dja River in Southeastern Cameroon”
Takanori OISHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
11:45 - 11:50 Comment
William BALÉE
11:50 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:35 Visit Museum Galleries
Part 4: New World Resource Exploitation

Chair: Teramura (NME)

14:35 - 15:20 “Historical Ecology in Amazonia: Interdisciplinary Approach of a Pre-Columbian Landscape”
Stéphen ROSTAIN(CNRS-National Center for Scientific Investigation)
15:20 - 15:50 “400 Years of Sea Turtles and Humans near the Miskito Cays of Caribbean”
Hitoshi TAKAGI (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
15:50 - 16:20 “Historical Ecology of Bowhead Whales and Humans in Alaska”
Nobuhiro KISHIGAMI (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
16:20 - 16:30 Comments
Mitsuo ICHIKAWA (Kyoto University, Japan)
16:30 - 16:40 Comments
Tomoya AKIMICHI (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
16:40 - 17:40 Discussion
March 21 (Wednesday), Day 3
＜Session topic: Nature, Culture and Civilization＞
9:00 - Gathering of participants
Part 5: Humans and Civilization in the Globalized World

Chair: Kishigami (NME)

9:15 - 10:00 “Human Relationships with Animals and Plants as Expressed in the Newly Renovated Musée de L’Homme in Paris”
Serge BAHUCHET (Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, France)
10:00 - 10:30 “Human Relationships with Animals and Plants Depicted at the National Museum of Ethnology Exhibition”
Kazunobu IKEYA (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
10:30 - 11:00 “Environment Utilization in an Ancient Oasis City along the Silk Road” Locations of City Remains and Their Surrounding Environment in Uzbekistan, Central Asia
Hirofumi TERAMURA (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
11:00 - 11:10 Comments
Hideaki SUZUKI (Nagasaki University, Japan)
11:10 - 11:20 Comments
Shoichiro TAKEZAWA (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
11:20 - 11:50 Discussion
General Discussion
11:50 - 12:30 Chair: Ikeya (NME) and Kishigami (NME)
Closing Address
12:30 - Kazunobu IKEYA (NME)