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Shojiro FUJIYAMA (professor) |
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BA
in Sociology (Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 1970);
MA in Education (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 1975).
Shojiro Fujiyama was born and brought up in Saga city, northern Kyushu. He studied sociology at Yokohama City University and cultural anthropology at the Graduate School at Kyushu University. He has also taught anthropology at Fukuoka University and Ehime University, and is currently working in the Department of Public Sociology at Fukuoka Prefectural University. Professor Fujiyama has also done extensive field work on the Uyghur region in China.
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1. Cultural Anthropology: Cultural anthropology at FPU is a social-scientific discipline that aims to explain both variability and uniformity in human social behavior, focusing particularly on Asian societies. Participating students discuss the concept of culture and examine variability in issues such as marriage, gender roles, kinship, economic systems, arts, political life, religion and globalization. The course also deals with contemporary anthropological issues such as education in multicultural societies, industrial ethnoscience, the ethnography of aging, and death and funeral ceremonies.
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2. Medical Anthropology: This course focuses on how anthropological analysis can be applied to the study of illness and healthcare. More specifically, it compares medical systems across societies to gauge variability in terms of the experience and treatment of sickness. How practitioners and patients construe sickness and suffering as distinctive social realities, and how these realities are organized in the local cultural systems are fundamental concerns of the course.
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| 3. Anthropology of Education: This course applies different perspectives (from, for example, minority groups or different cultures) in order to rethink education in our own culture. This approach is used to consider issues such as the socialization process of schooling; the production, transmission, and acquisition of culture within the educational process; the role of the school in the creation of identity; and how minority groups interact with the majority culture in schooling. |
| 4. Studies of Ethnicity: This course includes the following topics: ethnicity and state structures; cultural pluralism and its institutionalism; the politics of multiculturalism and other forms of difference (including gendered ethnicity and ethno-religious identities); minority rights and human rights; challenges to secularism; the nation-state, and other aspects of conceptions of citizenship. |
| 5. Comparative Studies on Child Rearing: This post-graduate course focuses on children from a variety of cultures and the new theory of learning. Children have their own world, distinct from that of adults, and the rituals of life (birth, initiation, wedding, funeral, etc.) inform their conception of society at large. The course also considers the following works: Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation by Lave and Wenger, and Learning by expanding by Yrjo Engestrom. |
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| Professor Fujiyama is currently conducting cultural anthropological research based on the Uyghur, Xinjiang region of China. The Uyghur people reside in Central Asia and are famous as the people of the Silk Road and for Uyghur medicine. Medical anthropological research is investigating Uyghur medicine in terms of how it differs from western medicine, and how it may contribute to the popularization of alternative medicine in Japan. Uyghur primary school students have to learn the Chinese language as a foreign language, highlighting what is considered a national and ethnic problem. |
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