HIRANO Chikako

Staff Members

HIRANO Chikako

Associate Professor
Department of Advanced Human Sciences

Research Specialization	Cultural Anthropology, Australian Indigenous Studies
Individual Research Projects	A review of anthropological studies on indigenous drinking

Academic Qualifications

B.A. Kobe University. 2003
M.A. Kobe University. 2012
Ph.D. Kobe University. 2020

Research Interests

The Crisis of Indigenous Society in the Post-Colonial Era, Transformation of the Aboriginal Way, The Maintenance and Reproduction of Social Relations through Handicraft Production

Current Research Topics

A Review of Anthropological Studies on Indigenous Drinking

Research Keywords

Australia, Indigenous People, Problem Drinking, Crisis, Art, Sharing, Aboriginal Way

Selected Publications

2014	Chikako Hirano, The Limitation to Categorize into Aborigine or White: A Case of Conflicts of Opinions about Easing the Control on Alcohol against Aborigines in the Northern Territory of Australia (in Japanese), Kobe Cultural Anthropology 5: 3-27, 2014.
2013	Chikako Hirano, A Framework for the Relationship between Indigenous and Non-indigenous Peoples in the Northern Territory of Australia: The Evolution of Anthropological Studies on Problem Drinking (in Japanese), Cultural Anthropology 78 (2): 265-277, 2013.

Publications (English publications only)

2020	Naohiro Hohashi, Hanna Horiguchi, Chikako Hirano, Qiting Lin, The efficacy of virtual family interviews/meetings that transcend physical distance and national borders, Proceedings of the Transcultural Nursing Society Conference in Japan 2020: 80, 2020.
2018	Chikako Hirano, Continuity of Mobility: Canvas Selling by Aborigines in the Central Desert of Australia’, Research on the Public Policies of Migration, the working paper series of JSPS Core- to-Core Program (A. Advanced Research Networks), Multiculturalization and Welfare for the Regeneration of Communities in European, Asian and Japanese Societies: 1-13, 2018.
2004	Naohiro Hohashi, Chikako Koyama, A Japan-U.S. comparison of family functions from the perspective of mothers utilizing “Family Houses”─Cross-cultural research using the Feetham Family Functioning Survey, Japanese Journal of Research in Family Nursing, 10(1): 21-31, 2004.

Presentations

2020	Naohiro Hohashi, Hanna Horiguchi, Chikako Hirano, Qiting Lin, The efficacy of virtual family interviews/meetings that transcend physical distance and national borders, Transcultural Nursing Society Conference, Kobe University Virtual Meeting Spot (Kobe, Japan), 2020.07.10.
2017	Chikako Hirano, Continuity of Mobility: Selling Canvases among Aborigines in the Central Desert of Australia, Seminar for JSPS Core-to-Core Program (A: Advanced Research Networks) Japan-Asia-Europe Comparative Symposium on Migration, Multiculturalization and Welfare in Naples 2017 Conservatorio delle orfane a Terra murata, Procida, 2017.09.21.