KAORI KAWAI

INSTITUTION

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

ACADEMIC FIELD & RESEARCH

Anthropology. I am interested in developing a cross-discipline joint study on the origins and evolution of sociality with researchers investigating cultural/ ecological / physical anthropology, primate sociology / ecology, comparative cognitive science, evolutionary psychology and social psychology, etc.

RESEARCH FIELD (FIELD SITE, LOCATION OF RESEARCH)

East African Pastoral Societies (Kenya and Uganda)

MAIN PUBLICATIONS/PAPERS

• Kawai K. (Ed.) Extremity: The Evolution of Human Sociality. Kyoto University Press, 2020. (Japanese)
• Kawai K. (Ed.) Others: The Evolution of Human Sociality. Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, 2019.
• Tokoro I., Kawai K. (Eds.) An Anthropology of Things 2. Kyoto University Press, 2019. (Japanese)
• Tokoro I., Kawai K. (Eds.) An Anthropology of Things. Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, 2018.
• Kawai K. (Ed.) Institutions: The Evolution of Human Sociality. Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, 2017.
• Kawai K. “From field to paper: The documentation of ecological anthropology” Connecting Science and Culture: Analogical Thinking. Kasuga N. (Ed.) University of Tokyo Press, 2016. (Japanese)
• Kawai K. (Ed.) Groups: The Evolution of Human Sociality. Kyoto University Press & Trans Pacific Press, 2013.
• Kawai K. (Ed.) Anthropology of Living Field: Recognition, Practice and Representation of Land and Nature. Kyoto University Press, 2007. (Japanese)
• Kawai K. Pastoralists’ View of Body and Therapeutic Practice. University of Tokyo Press, 1998. (Japanese)

COMMENTS

Think with one’s own head

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