Academic Staff
NIWA Norio
Center for Research Department, Assistant Professor
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Academic Qualifications:
B.A. Keio Univ. 1996
M.A. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 1999
Ph.D. Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. 2006

Geographical Areas of Interest:
Oceania, Japan

Ethnic Groups:
Fijian, Indo-Fijian, Solomon Islanders, Japanese

Discipline:
Social anthropology, Oceania

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Publications:
2010@Leaving their tradition behind: Development of the Lami movement in Fiji from 1949 to the 1990s People and Culture in Oceania 26A81-108ŁB

2009 Development as Detraditionalization: Historical Anthropology of the Lami movement in Fiji. (In Japanese) Tokyo: Akashishoten.

2008 Economic System and Ethnic Trait: An Analysis of the Introduction of Cooperative Assciations in the Fiji Islands. (In Japanese) Nampo-Bunka: Tenri Bulletin of South Asian Studies 35: 101–122.

2008 From Girmitiya to Twice Displaced People: A Short Note on Works and Lives of Brij Lal. (In Japanese) Journal of Folk Culture Studies 9: 42–57.

2005 Early Development of the Bula Tale Co-operative Group in Fiji Islands: Its Experimental Practice and Aftermath. People and Culture in Oceania 21: 43–59.

2005 Fijian: The Coexistence of Fijian and Indian. (In Japanese) The First People of Oceania, Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.

2005 The Formation and Development of One Counter-traditional Movement: A Case Study of the Ilami Fijian Corporation in the Republic of Fiji Islands (In Japanese) Journal of Asian and African Studies 69: 183–210.

2004 After ‘Tradition’: A Case Study about Social and Religious Activities of the Ex-Lami Members in Fiji Islands. (In Japanese) Journal of Cultural Anthropology 5: 113–128.

2004 Solomon Islanders in the Contemporary Fiji: A Case Study of Settlement in the Western Vitilevu. (In Japanese) Annual Review of Social Anthropology 30: 161–173.

2004 Endless Pouring: Kava Culture and Welcome Ceremony in Fiji. (In Japanese) Feasts of the World Tokyo: Benseishuppan.

2003 Once We Were Communists: The Bula Tale Cooperative Group Experiment and its Aftermath in Fiji. (In Japanese) Nampo-Bunka: Tenri Bulletin of South Asian Studies 30: 67–84.

2000 On Development of the Attempted Coup in Fiji, 19 of May, 2000. (In Japanese) Newsletter of Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies 68: 12–18.

2000 Introduction of Indirect Rule and Social Change in Fiji with Special Reference to the Tuka Movement. (In Japanese) Annual Review of Social Anthropology 24: 51–70.