日時： 2017年9月19日（火）午後3時00分～
場所： 稲盛財団記念館 2階 東南亭
使用言語： 英語
発表タイトル：
“Connections to the Wider World: Recent Developments in American Anthropology”
講師：
Michael Chibnik is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. He has conducted research on household economies, work organization, agricultural systems, and craft production in Mexico, Peru, Belize, and the United States. Professor Chibnik’s books include Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia (1994), Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings (2003), and Anthropology, Economics, and Choice (2011). He was the editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, from 2012 to 2016.
アブストラクト：
Based on his experiences as editor-in-chief of the journal American Anthropologist, Michael Chibnik discusses current trends in sociocultural anthropology in the United States. The two most striking recent developments are (1) an increased emphasis on connections between particular communities, groups, and organizations and the wider world; and (2) a focus on practical issues such as political and ethnic strife, environmental destruction, and migration. The number of articles in American Anthropologist on politics and economics is increasing; studies of kinship and religion are decreasing somewhat. Multi-sited research is now much more common than detailed ethnographic studies of people living in one place.