Yasumasa Sekine | Kwansei Gakuin University (original) (raw)
My PhD dissertation was completed at Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London in 1993.
My original interest is descrimination based on ritual pollution among South Indians and my PhD thesis explored what pollution is forms the strong criticism of the Dumontian understanding of South Asian societies.
My present work is shown below:
An Anthropological Study of Street-Wisdom and the Emergence of New Locality
http://streetwisdom.blog.fc2.com/blog-category-1.html
http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/research/activity/project/iurp/11jr143
An anthropological study on transnationalism and "street" phenomena
http://www.transnationalstreet.jp/en/outline/assignment/
Supervisors: Prof. Lionel Caplan
Phone: home: +81-797-75-1113
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