Anthropological Study of Cultural Heritage:
Its "Social Behavior" Observed in East African Cases

Books

Iida, Taku (ed.) 2022 Heritage Practices in Africa (Senri Etnnological Studies 109), Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.

Articles

Taku IIDA 2022 Heritage Studies as Public Ethnology: Recent Trends and Issues Concerned with Intangible Cultural Heritage. In Wataru Iwamoto, Yoko Nojima, Aina Inoue, and Mieko Okura (eds.) Proceedings of the IRCI Researchers Forum on ICH Safeguarding in the Asia-Pacific Region “Progress and Challenges in the Research for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Towards a Sustainable Future”, Sakai: International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI), pp. 76-81.

Chanthasone Inthavong、Chea Nol、NAKAMURA Koji、SATO Hiroshi, IIDA Taku 2022. Panel Discussion. In JCIC-Heritage (ed.) Cultural Heritage and the SDGs III: Role of Cultural Heritage in Local Communities (Proceedings of JCIC-Heritage’s 28th Seminar), pp. 32-40.

Iida, Taku 2022 “Adaptive” Heritage: Carving as a cultural icon and a way of life for the Zafimaniry of Madagascar. In Taku Iida (ed.) Heritage Practices of Africa, pp. 77-98, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology(https://doi.org/10.15021/00009915).

Keida, Katsuhiko 2022 Still a Sacred Void? Cultural Heritage, Sacred Places, and Living Spaces of the Mijikenda Kaya Forests along the Kenyan Coast in East Africa. In Taku Iida (ed.) Heritage Practices of Africa, pp. 55-75, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology(https://doi.org/10.15021/00009914).

Nakamura, Ryo 2022 Hidden Cultural Heritage: Tourism and Belief Concerning the UNESCO World Heritage of Kilwa Island on the Southern Swahili Coast in Tanzania. In Taku Iida (ed.) Heritage Practices of Africa, pp. 21-40, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology(https://doi.org/10.15021/00009912).

Iida, Taku 2022 Introduction: Heritage Practices in Africa. In Taku Iida (ed.) Heritage Practices of Africa, pp. 1-17, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology(https://doi.org/10.15021/00009911).

Iida, Taku 2021 Cultural Transmission Against Collective Amnesia: Bodies and Things in Heritage Practices. Minpaku Anthropology Newsletter 52: 13-14.

Iida, Taku 2021 Sustainability in Developing Societies: Changes in Commodity Prices and Population over a Quarter of a Century in a Fishing Village in Southwestern Madagascar. In Toshio Meguro, Chihiro Ito, and Kariuki Kirigia (eds.) ‘African Potentials’ for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management: Against the Image of ‘Deficiency’ and Tyranny of ‘Fortress’ (African Potentials: Convivial Perspectives for the Future of Humanity 6), Mankon: Langaa RPCIG, pp. 283-303.

Suzuki, Hideaki 2020 African Diaspora in Asia. In David Ludden et al. (eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, p. 28, Oxford: Oxford University Press(https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.34).

Oral Presentations

Iida, Taku and William D. Nitzky 2022 People of African Descent Living in Kansai: Creating Collaboration between Community and Minpaku. 317th Joint Seminar of the Research Departments (June 29, 2022, National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, Japan).

Iida, Taku 2021 Heritage Studies as Public Ethnology / Sociology: Recent Trends and the Issues Concerned with the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The IRCI Researchers Forum on ICH Safeguarding in the Asia-Pacific Region “Progress and Challenges in the Research for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage” (October 29, 2021, Zoom meeting from International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region).

Iida, Taku 2021 Making Museum Objects Revive in Human Societies: An Experience of an Image-Sharing Project between Africa and East Asia. Serial Academic Webinars of Minpaku Special Research Project “Cultural Transmission against Collective Amnesia: Bodies and Things in Heritage Practices,” Third Session “Transmission through Digital Technology” (February 27, 2021, Zoom meeting from National Museum of Ethnology).

Keida, Katsuhiko 2020 The Sacred Kaya Forests as Mijikenda Archives along the Kenyan Coast. ACHS Fifth Biennial Conference 2020, Curated Session “Local Values of Heritage in Africa: Swinging between the Universal and the Local as well as the Tangible and Intangible” (August 26, 2021, Zoom meeting from University College of London).

Hanabuchi, Keiya 2020 Historical Monument and Nostalgia of Comorian Diaspora. ACHS Fifth Biennial Conference 2020, Curated Session “Local Values of Heritage in Africa: Swinging between the Universal and the Local as well as the Tangible and Intangible” (August 26, 2021, Zoom meeting from University College of London).

Nakamura, Ryo 2020 Local Belief at a Hidden Heritage Site on Kilwa Island in Tanzania. ACHS Fifth Biennial Conference 2020, Curated Session “Local Values of Heritage in Africa: Swinging between the Universal and the Local as well as the Tangible and Intangible” (August 26, 2021, Zoom meeting from University College of London).

Iida, Taku 2020 Re-embedding Museum Objects into Local Communicative Networks. ACHS Fifth Biennial Conference 2020, Curated Session “Local Values of Heritage in Africa: Swinging between the Universal and the Local as well as the Tangible and Intangible” (August 26, 2021, Zoom meeting from University College of London).

Umeya, Kiyoshi 2020 Local Practices around the Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi. ACHS Fifth Biennial Conference 2020, Curated Session “Local Values of Heritage in Africa: Swinging between the Universal and the Local as well as the Tangible and Intangible” (August 26, 2021, Zoom meeting from University College of London).

Iida, Taku 2019 Communal Wellbeing among Competitive Fishermen. International Seminar by the UK-Japan Network on the Political Ecology of Coastal Societies “The Politics and Pitfalls of Maritime Governance” (June 18, 2019, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK).

Films

"Sorombe: Ceremony for spirits in South-west Madagascar"

2021 48min. Filming and direction by Iida, Taku

[Screen history] English version
Ethnografilm (April 9, 2023, Théâtre Lepic, Paris, France)
International Ethnological Film Festival, Kratovo, 2022 (October 9, 2022, Museum of Kratovo, Kratovo, Republic of North Macedonia)

[Screen history] Japanese version
The 56th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (June 5, 2022, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan)
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival in Osaka (March 10, 2022, Theater Seven, Osaka, Japan)
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival（December 6, 2021, K's Cinema, Tokyo, Japan)