Seminar I: Joe WATKINS
08 NOVEMBER 24
NTU-EFEO Talk
Speaker:
Dr. Joe WATKINS
Senior Consultant, Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, (ACEC), Tucson,Arizona / Research Associate, Global Station for Indigenous Studies and CulturalDiversities: GSI, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Title:
Beyond “Ainu Archaeology”:Is Indigenous Archaeology Feasible in Japan?
Date:
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 10:00 am
Venue:
Rm 201, Dept. of Anthropology (Shuiyuan Campus), National Taiwan University
Abstract:
In their Introduction to the edited volume Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives (2014), editors Mark Hudson, ann-elise lewallen, and Mark Watson emphasized how “… scientific inquiry into andknowledge of Ainu people, collated under the nomenclature of Ainu Studies, were employed to develop state and prefectural policy directives for colonizing and modernizing Ainu people” (2014: 3). Much as in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, some Indigenous people recognize that, even while specialized ethnic studies programs such as “Ainu Studies” contributed its own set of issues concerning identity, their legacies are mixed.Archaeology has played an important role in providinga scientific consensus for the antiquity of Ainu settlement in Hokkaido, and these arguments have been cited in national policy-making statements. In 2009, Hirofumi Kato offered a perspective on Indigenous Archaeology and the possibility it offered for archaeology in Hokkaido; in 2011, Harou Ohyi provided a response and offered concerns about Kato’s Indigenous Archaeology and its utility for creating “Ainu Archaeology” in Hokkaido.This presentation offers a briefdiscussion of “Ainu Archaeology” as a subset of Japanese archaeology and ways that it is similar to, but different from, Indigenous Archaeology as practiced in other countries.
The talk will be chaired by Prof. WU Mu-chun, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University.
The talk will be given in English. Registration is not required.
lecture
Speaker:
Dr. Joe WATKINS
Senior Consultant, Archaeological and Cultural Education Consultants, (ACEC), Tucson,Arizona / Research Associate, Global Station for Indigenous Studies and CulturalDiversities: GSI, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Title:
Beyond “Ainu Archaeology”:Is Indigenous Archaeology Feasible in Japan?
Date:
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 10:00 am
Venue:
Rm 201, Dept. of Anthropology (Shuiyuan Campus), National Taiwan University
Abstract:
In their Introduction to the edited volume Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives (2014), editors Mark Hudson, ann-elise lewallen, and Mark Watson emphasized how “… scientific inquiry into andknowledge of Ainu people, collated under the nomenclature of Ainu Studies, were employed to develop state and prefectural policy directives for colonizing and modernizing Ainu people” (2014: 3). Much as in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, some Indigenous people recognize that, even while specialized ethnic studies programs such as “Ainu Studies” contributed its own set of issues concerning identity, their legacies are mixed.Archaeology has played an important role in providinga scientific consensus for the antiquity of Ainu settlement in Hokkaido, and these arguments have been cited in national policy-making statements. In 2009, Hirofumi Kato offered a perspective on Indigenous Archaeology and the possibility it offered for archaeology in Hokkaido; in 2011, Harou Ohyi provided a response and offered concerns about Kato’s Indigenous Archaeology and its utility for creating “Ainu Archaeology” in Hokkaido.This presentation offers a briefdiscussion of “Ainu Archaeology” as a subset of Japanese archaeology and ways that it is similar to, but different from, Indigenous Archaeology as practiced in other countries.
The talk will be chaired by Prof. WU Mu-chun, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University.
The talk will be given in English. Registration is not required.
lecture