Professor Emeritus Hiromu Shimizu becomes a laureate of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, in the 2024 fall decorations. This decoration is awarded to those who have served the public good for many years and had distinguished achievements.
Professor Shimizu specializes in anthropology and Philippine Studies. After working as a professor at Kyushu University, he joined the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, as a professor in 2006 and served as the director of the Center from April 2010 to March 2014, becoming a professor emeritus in 2017. He received the 11th Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Award and the 107th Japan Academy Prize for Grassroots Globalization: Reforestation and Cultural Revitalization in the Philippine Cordilleras (Kyoto University Press, 2013).
In his recent book アエタ 灰の中の未来─大噴火と創造的復興の写真民族誌 (The Future of the Ayta in the Ashes: A Photo Ethnography of Volcanic Eruption and Creative Reconstruction, Kyoto University Press, 2024), he reports on the ethnography he has been involved in for more than 40 years using many photographs and continues to explore new ways of doing anthropology and ethnography.
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Japanese Book Launch and Talk: The Future of the Ayta in the Ashes by Hiromu Shimizu