KIMURA, Daiji
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Professor
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Division of African Area Studies
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Jan. 2007, taken in DR Congo during research.
It's actually a posed photo, taken with a timer :-P
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Professor Kimura has been conducting anthropological research in tropical Africa.
From 1986 to 1989, he studied the Bongando people, shifting-cultivators
in DR Congo.
Because of the political and economic confusion, and succeeding civil wars
in former Zaire, the research among the Bongando interrupted until 2005.
In 1993, he started new research on the Baka hunter-gatherers in Cameroon.
In both fields, he focused on the ecology and social interaction of the local
people (see Main Publications below).
Biography
- 1960 Born in Ehime prefecture, Japan
- 1983 Graduated from the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
- 1985 Received master's degree from the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
- 1990 Received Ph.D. in Science, Kyoto University
- 1992 Appointed associate professor at Faculty of Education Fukui University
- 1997 Appointed associate professor at Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University
- 1998 Appointed associate professor at Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
- 2012 Appointed professor at Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, and director at Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Main Publications
- Kimura, D. and H. Ihobe 1985 "Feral cattle (Bos taurus) on Kuchinoshima island, southwestern Japan: Their stable ranging and unstable grouping" Journal of Ethology 3 pp.39-47.
- Kimura, D. 1987 "Structure of association in a small-group society: The case of Tokara islands, Japan" Quarterly Anthropology (in Japanese)
- Kimura, D. 1990 "Verbal interaction of the Bongando in central Zaire: With special reference to their addressee-unspecified loud speech" African Study Monographs 11-1 pp.1-26.
- Kimura, D. 1992 "Daily activities and social association of the Bongando in central Zaire" African Study Monographs 13-1 pp.1-33.
- Kimura, D. 1996 "Plant utilization and recognition among the Bongando, shifting cultivators" Animal Archaeology 5 pp.85-109 (in Japanese).
- Kimura, D. 1998 "Land use in shifting cultivation: The case of the Bongando (Ngandu) in central Zaire" African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 25, pp.179-203.
- Kimura, D. 1998 "Plant as female: Privative opposition in the Bongando plant nomenclature" Ecosophia 2 pp.115-127 (in Japanese).
- Kimura, D. 2001 "Utterance overlap and long silence among the Baka Pygmies: Comparison with Bantu farmer and Japanese university students" African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 26, pp.103-121.
- Kimura, D. 2003 "Bakas' mode of co-presence" African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 28, pp.25-35.
- Kimura, D. 2006 "Diversity of human verbal interaction: Two cases from tropical Africa" Cradle of Language Conference Abstracts pp.69-70.
- Tashiro, Y., G. Idani, D. Kimura and L. Bongoli 2007 "Habitat changes and decreases in the bonobo population in Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo" African Study Monographs 28-2 pp.99-106.
- Lingomo B. and D. Kimura 2009 "Taboo of eating bonobo among the Bongando people in the Wamba region, Democratic Republic of Congo" African Study Monographs 30-4 pp.209-225.
- Kimura, D., H. Yasuoka and T. Furuichi 2012 "Diachronic change of protein acquisition among the Bongando in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 43: 161-178.
- Yasuoka, H., D. Kimura, C. Hashimoto and T. Furuichi 2012 "Quantitative assessment of livelihood around great ape reserves: Cases in Luo Scientific Reserve, DR Congo and Kalinzu Forest Reserve, Uganda." African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 43: 137-159.
- Kimura, D. 2013 "Constructing AFlora: A database of plant use in Africa." African Study Monographs 34-3: 143-159.
- Kimura, D. 2014 "Everyday conversation of the Baka Pygmies." African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 47: 75-95.
- Kimura, D., B. Lingomo, H. Masuda and R. Yamaguchi 2015 "Change in Land Use among the Bongando in the Democratic Republ ic of the Congo" African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue 51: 5-35.
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