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MIYAMOTO Kana

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MIYAMOTO Kana

MIYAMOTO Kana

Name	MIYAMOTO Kana
Affiliation	Specially Appointed Researcher, African Studies Center - TUFS
E-mail	kkmiyamototufs.ac.jp
Research Field	Cultural anthropology, Folklore
Key Words	Political Anthropology, Land disputes, Ancestral belief, Otjiherero-speaking people, Namibia
Research Interest	I have conducted ethnographic research among the Otjiherero speaking people in north-west Namibia since 2015. My research focuses on land reform and traditional authority in post-apartheid Namibia, examining how pastoralists who had little interest in land came to find a sense of belonging and attachment to it.
Degree	PhD, Kobe University, March 2021 MA of Arts, Kobe University, March 2017
Major Works	【Papers】 Traditional Authorities, Legal Power, and Land Disputes in North-West Namibia. Anthropology Southern Africa, 45(1): 16-29, 2022 Taboos and Double Descent Among the Herero Speaking People of North-West Namibia, Kobe Cultural Anthropology 6: 150-169, 2022, (in Japanase) Taboos Related to the Ancestors of the Himba and Herero Pastoralists in Northwest Namibia: A Preliminary Report. The Working Paper Series of JSPS Core-to-Core Program (Research Center for Promoting Intercultural Studies, Kobe University) , 4: 1-21, 2019. Traditional Authority in Land Disputes: Land Reform and the Ascertainment of Customary Law in Namibia, Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology 83(3): 337-357, 2018, (in Japanase) The Role of Traditional Authority in Land Disputes: A Case Study of Pastoral Society in Namibia, Conference Paper of PSAJ (Peace Studies Association of Japan), pp. 1-20, 2018, (in Japanase) 【 Research Grants Awarded (in the last 10 years) 】 Principal Investigator JSPS KAKENHI for Young Scientists, 'The becoming of ancestral land: A case study of the Herero land claims in Namibia', 2023-2026 JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, 'An Anthropological Study of the Revival of Traditional Authorities and Land Reform in Post-Apartheid Namibia', based on University of Cape Town, 2022 JSPS KAKENHI for Research Activity Start-up, 'An Anthropological Study of the Revival of Traditional Authorities among Herero-Speaking People in Namibia', 2021-2023 Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation, Research Grant, 'An Anthropological Study of Ancestral Belief and Praise Poetry among Herero-speaking People in Namibia', 2021 Japan Science Society, Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant, 'An Anthropological Study of the Ancestral Land Restitution Disputes and Traditional Authorities among Herero Speaking People in Namibia', 2021 JSPS KAKENHI for JSPS Research Fellow for Young Scientists (DC2), 'Spatial cognition and taboo of the Himba and Herero pastoralists in Namibia: Issues relating to their land tenure', 2019-2020 Japan Science Society, Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant, 'Rethinking the Common-pool Resource Management from the Perspective of the Local Cosmology: A Case Study of the Communal Conservancy in North-west Namibia', 2017 【 Awards】 Japan Science Society, Sasakawa Scientific Research Award for Outstanding Young Researcher, 2022 JAUW (Japanese Association of University Women) Kobe brunch, scholarship, first prize award, 2019