HIRANO Chikako
Staff Members

HIRANO Chikako
Associate Professor
Department of Advanced Human Sciences
Research Specialization | Cultural Anthropology, Australian Indigenous Studies |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |