Course Description
List of Doctoral Dissertations Accepted at the National Museum of Ethnology
PH.D. (Completed with Course Work and Dissertation)
Department of Regional Studies
YANG Haiying
1994 The Social Structure of the Ordos Mongol: The Changing Functions of Yasu (Bone) Relationships in Historical Contexts.
HOSOYA Hiromi
1995 The Contemporaneity of Andean Mountain Religion in Peru: Dynamism of the Andean Religious World.
OKADA Hiroki
1996 Dynamics of Korean Society and “Yanbanization”: A Study of Lineage and Confucian Rituals in Chung-Choeung Province.
CAO Jiannan
1996 A Study of Sericulture Transmission in Areas of Hangzhou, Jiashou and Huzhou, China.
FUJII Mako
1997 The Structural Study of a Mongolian Epic: Secret Structure and History of “Altai Hailah”.
SHIRAKAWA Chihiro
1997 Kastom Meresin: An Anthropological Study of Traditional Medicine and Medical Pluralism among the People of Tongoa, Vanuatu.
KAZAMA Kazuhiro
1998 ‘Equality’ under Dual Conditions of Poverty: Socio-Economic Anthropology in Tabiteuea South, Kiribati.
KURIHARA Shinji
1998 The Interaction between Culture, Society and Architecture: About Chinese Cave Dwellings (Yao-Dong) and their Settlements in China’s Loess Plateau.
NEJIMA Susumu
1999 Transformation of the Ismailis in Northern Pakistan.
KANSUI Akiko
1999 The Role of Language and Intellectuals in Regional Movement: A Case Study of the Voru Movement in the South Estonia.
SHIMIZU Ikuro
2001 An Ethnographic Study of the House among the Akha of Northern Thailand: Form and Its Change.
HAYASHI Fumiki
2001 Changes in the Mobility of Traveling Merchants on Periodic Market Circuits in Korea: The Case of Medicinal Herb Merchants Trading in the Gong-ju Area.
NAKATA Tomoko
2002 A Study of Village Politics in Southern Laos: “Solidarity” and Struggle in a Ngae Village.
YOSHIE Takahumi
2002 Indigenous Education and Colonialism in Early Twentieth Century Bolivia.
Department of Comparative Studies.
KOJIMA Mitsuhiro
1992 Analysis of Culture Using Mathematical Methods.
SUZUKI Seiji
1994 A Study of Urban Aboriginals in Sydney, Australia: The Construction of Their Tradition and Ethnicity.
TOSA Keiko
1995 An Anthropological Study of Weikza Belief in Burma.
NAKAHARA Yukari
1996 Village Identity in the Discourse and Communicative Acts of Folk Songs: A Study of Village Songs in the Amami Islands.
SUGIYAMA Kyoko
1998 An Anthropological Study of the Su-He-Yuan House: Viewed from the Mutual Relationship Between People and Nature.
LEE Sun-ae
1997 An Ethnological Study of the Movement and Settlement of Women Divers of Cheju Island in Korea and Japan.
PAN Hong Li
1997 The Social Organization and Transition of Han Nationality in Southeastern China: A Study of the Rural Lineage of Southern Fujian Province.
FUKUOKA Madoka
1997 Succession of the Skill: A Case Study of the Cirebonese Mask Dance in Java.
LANSISALMI Riikka
1997 Overt First and Second Person-Designating Terms in Japanese Discourse: A Pragmatic Perspective.
SHIOJI Yuko
2000 Ethnicity in the Cotswolds of England: Sensing Boundaries and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.
AOKI Takenobu
2001 A Study of the Kethoprak Javanese Popular Theater in Modern Indonesia.
NOMOTO Misa
2002 An Urban Anthropological Study of “Commercial People” Bamileke in Cameroon.
PH.D. (Completed with Dissertation Only)
YASUGI Yoshiho
1994 An Areal-Typological Study of Middle American Indian Languages.
NAKAYAMA Noriko
1997 “Modernization” of Turkey from the Perspective of Rural Women: The Mutual Relationship of Secularism, Islam and Women.
NISHII Ryoko
1997 Practical Religion in Southern Thailand: A Case Study of Muslim-Buddhist Coexistence in M Village.
OGAWA Ryo
1997 An Ethnological Study on the Public Power and Informal Sector in Senegal.
SEKINE Hisao
1998 Economic Development and Melanesian Leadership: Cases of Logging in Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands.
SUGIMOTO Seiko
1998 Caste as Kinship, Kinship as Caste: A Case Study on the Kinship Networks of Kongu Vellalar in South India.
UCHIYAMA Junzo
2002 Deer, Wild Boar, and Carp: The Zooarchaeological Considerations of a Subsistence Strategy in Western Japan from the Late Initial to the Early Middle Jomon period.
OIKAWA Akihumi
2002 Quantitative and Mathematical Analysis for Archaeology.