A Comparative Study of “Indigenous Knowledge” and “Modern Science”

PI: Keiichi OMURA
Associate Professor, Osaka University, Graduate School of Language and Culture
Cultural Anthropology, Comparison of Inuit knowledge and modern expert science based on fieldwork; Anthropological theoretical research on IK

Kazuyoshi SUGAWARA
Professor, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
Social Anthropology/Anthropology of Cognition
Comparative study of Bushmen knowledge and science; Interactionist analysis of the knowledge dissemination processes of IK and science

Sachiko KUBOTA
Professor, Kobe University, Faculty of Intercultural Studies
Cultural Anthropology
Comparative study of MS and Aboriginal knowledge in Australia

Taku IIDA
Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, Inter-university research institute, etc.
Ecological Anthropology
Comparative study of Vezo and modern fisheries in Madagascar

Atsuro MORITA
Associate Professor, Osaka University, Other research school
Anthropology of Science and Technology
Comparative study of traditional and modern flood control technologies in Thailand; Theoretical research on the relationship of IK and MS from the standpoint of STS

Goro YAMAZAKI
Researcher, Osaka University, Faculty of Human Sciences
Cultural Anthropology
Theoretical research on the relationship of IK and MS from the standpoint of the Anthropology of Science

Kazunori KONDO
Associate Professor, Kagoshima University, Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities
Philosophy
Theoretical research on the relationship of IK and MS from the standpoint of the epistemology of science

Marie ROUEN
Director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Relationship of IK and MS, Anthropological research on IK

Casper JENSEN
Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen
Theoretical research in the Anthropology of Science

Henry STEWART
Visiting Professor, The Open University of Japan
Research on the Inuit

Moe NAKAZORA
JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher, Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities
Research on databases for traditional knowledge in India

Hirohisa MORI
Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Theoretical research on the relationship of IK and MS from the standpoint of information science; Comparative study of traditional and modern maps