YAMAMOTO HiroyukiYAMAMOTO Hiroyuki
The Japan Center for Area Studies (JCAS)・Associate Professor

Research Specialization

Individual Research Projects

Personal website

Academic Qualifications:

• B.A. Univ. of Tokyo 1993
• M.A. Univ. of Tokyo 1995
• Ph.D. Univ. of Tokyo 2003

Research Topics:

Ethnicity and Nationality in Islamized Southeast Asia

Geographical areas of Interest:

Sabah (Malaysia), Malay Islamic Region (Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia)

Ethnic groups:

Kadazandusun, Bajau, Chinese, Sabahan, Malay, Malaysian, Indonesian

Discipline:

Area Studies

Publications:

2002

"Sports, Beauty Contests and the Tamu Besar: The Origins of Harvest Festival in Sabah (North Borneo)". Sabah Society Journal. (Sabah Society). 19:1-21.

2002

"From Penampang Boys to Tambunan Sons: Kadazandusun Leadership and Their Cultural 'Revival'". Mohd. Hazim Shah et al. (eds. ). New Perspectives in Malaysian Politics. Malaysian Social Science Association. pp.213-225.

2002

"Harvesting an Identity". Star. (Malaysia). March 11, 2002. p.18.

2001

""Foreigners' Nationalism" in Malaysia: Donald Stephens and K. Bali in Making of Sabah Nationhood". Sejarah. (Universiti Malaya). 9:49-70.

1999

"From Bornean Federation to Malaysia: Analysis of 'Stephens' Merdeka Plan'". MANU. (Universiti Malaysia Sabah). 2:59-80.

Presentations:

2004

"The Muslim Brotherhood Movement among Malay-Speaking Muslims in the 1950s". Middle Classes and Flows and Movements in East Asia (JSPS Core University Program Workshop), Kyoto University, 6-8 October, 2004.

2004

"Malay Periodicals in North Borneo as the Ideological Background to the Emergence of Bajau Identity". International Conference on Bajau/Sama Communities (ICBC), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 21-23 July, 2004.

2003

"Muslim Brotherhood in the Malay World in the 1950s". The 3rd International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS3), Swissotel The Stamford, Singapore, 19-22 August, 2003.

2003

"Relation between Chinese and Inland Autochthones in Borneo in 1960s". Workshop on Culture and Development in and around Sabah. ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. 23-24 January, 2003.

2001

"The Pasok Momogun Movement in Sabah in the 1960s". The 3rd International Malaysian Studies Conference. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 6-8 August, 2001.

2000

"The Origins of Sabah Nationhood: A Case of "Foreigners' Nationalism" in Malaysia". The 16th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA). Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 27-31 July, 2000.

1999

"From Penampang Boys to Tambunan Sons: The Kadazandusun Leadership and Their Cultural 'Revival'". The 2nd International Malaysian Studies Conference. Universiti Malaya. 2-4 August, 1999.