TANABE, Akio

Division：Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Professor
Main Research:Initiative 4 "Studies in the Potentialities of Local Culture, Institution and Technology"
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2007 G-COE Research Outcome:
 

• Tanabe, Akio 2007 "Toward Vernacular Democracy: Moral Society and Post-postcolonial Transformation in Rural Orissa, India" American Ethnologist 34(3): 558-574.
• Tanabe, Akio 2007 “Understanding Ethical Basis of Local Democracy: Towards Post-Postcolonial Transformation in Rural Orissa, India” In Northern South Asia: Political and Social Transformations (eds) H. Ishii, D. Gellner & K. Nawa. New Delhi: Manohar, pp.131-165.
• Tanabe, Akio (book review) 2007 Uwe Skoda, The Aghria: A Peasant Caste on a Tribal Frontier. Manohar, 2005. and Yaaminey Mubayi, Altar of Power: The Temple and the State in the Land of Jagannatha. Manohar, 2005. Indian Economic and Social Historical Review 44(4): 517-521.

List of Academic Presentations during 2007:
 

• Akio Tanabe,　“Cultural Politics of Life: Vernacular Democracy and Possibilities for Humanosphere-sustainable Development in Contemporary Rural Orissa, India” In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa: The First International Workshop, 12-14 March 2008, Kyoto University.

2008 G-COE Research Outcome:

• Akio Tanabe,　“Cultural Politics of Life: Vernacular Democracy and Possibilities for Humanosphere-sustainable Development in Contemporary Rural Orissa, India” In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa: The First International Workshop, 12-14 March 2008, Kyoto University.

List of Academic Presentations during 2008:
 

• Akio Tanabe,　“Cultural Politics of Life: Biomoral Humanosphere and Vernacular Democracy in Rural Orissa, India” (with Tokita Yumiko). American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting, 19–23 November 2008, San Francisco, California, U.S.
• Akio Tanabe, “Political Ecology of Life: Ideas on Humanosphere” The Second International Workshop: "Biosphere as a Global Force of Change" , 9-11 March 2009, Kyoto University

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List of Academic Presentations during 2010: 

• Akio Tanabe "Caste and Vernacular Democracy: Post-postcolonial Transformation in Rural India" Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.　 23 November 2010
• Akio Tanabe “Vernacular Democracy and Circumfluent Economy in Contemporary India”. American Anthropological Association 109th Annual Meeting, 17–21 November 2010, New Orleans, Lousiana, U.S. 17 November 2010