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

Staff Members

MIO Minoru
MIO MinoruMIO Minoru
Center for Research Development・Associate Professor
Research Specialization
  • Religious Anthropology; South Asia, India
Individual Research Projects
  • An Anthropological Study on the Transformation of Religion and Culture in Western India
Personal website ［5 Jul 2013 updated］

Academic Qualifications

  • B.A. University of Tokyo 1986
  • M.Soc, University of Tokyo 1988

Research Interests

  • Coexistence and conflicts of religious traditions in South Asia
  • Relationship between the religious nationalism and the daily religious practice in India
  • Impact of the growth of the urban middle class on the changes of religious festivals in India

Research Keywords

Rajasthan and Gujarat, India, Cultural Anthropology, Religious Anthropology

Publications (English publications only)

2004
[interview] Thapa, A. Singh, Scud to Become Nepal Encyclopedia: Makito Minami. Nepal’s Well-Wishers in Japan: A Short Biography (Japanese Well-Wishers to Nepal), pp.102–115. Kathmandu: Miteri Manch Nepal.
2004
Looking for Love and Miracles: Multivocal Composition and Conflicts among Believers in a Sufi Mausoleum Festival of Rajasthan, India. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology 2004 29 (1): 21–41
2000
National Discourse and Local Conflict: How Modernity Intervened in a Conflict over the Administration of a Sufi Saint's Mausoleum in Mewar, Rajasthan. In H. Kotani, T. Fujii and F. Oshikawa (eds.) Fussing Modernity: Appropriation of History and Political Mobilization in South Asia. (JCAS Symposium Series 11), pp.131–146. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
1999
Faith, Identity and Communal Discourse: Some Ethnological Considerations on the Conflicts over the Administration of a Sufi Saint's Mausoleum in Rajasthan. In Steering Committee of the Research Project Institutions, Networks and Forces of Change in Contemporary South Asia (ed.) Rituals as Popular Culture: towards Historico-Anthropological Understanding of Modern Indian Society, pp.1–57.

Presentations

2000
“Conflicting Identities and Levels of Ritual Participation in a Sufi Mausoleum Cult of Rajasthan, India.” Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society at Columbus, Ohio.