2015 - 2019 Anthropological Study on the Formation and the Function of the "Culture of the Aged"
2014 - 2018 Toward the Construction of "Folkloristics as Everydayness Studies" in East Asia
2014 - 2018 A cultural analysis of the relationship between children's perceptions of healh, illness and medicine and related behaviors and the current medical environment in two remote Japanese islands
2013 - 2018 The anthropological study on "family" in Okinawa: focusing on the link between elderly care and inheritance
Mari Kagaya. An Alternative Place for Women : A Case Study of Women's Support Activities in Japan. Senri Ethnological Studies = Senri Ethnological Studies. 2015. 91. 91. 121-138
Community as a Process : Examining the Narratives about Malaria Disaster at Hateruma-island, Okinawa. 2012. 93. 79-97
Present state and future prospects of gender studies in folklore studies: beyond the feminized gender concept. Bulletin of the Folklore Society of Japan. 2010. 262. 179-192
1997 - 2001 Ochanomizu University Faculty of Letters and Education Division of Human and Social Sciences
Professional career (3):
学士(人文科学) (お茶の水女子大学)
修士(社会科学) (お茶の水女子大学)
博士(社会科学) (お茶の水女子大学)
Work history (4):
2016/04 - 現在 Niigata University Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture Social and Cultural Studies Associate Professor
2022/10 - 2023/03 Ohio State University Center for Folklore Studies Visiting Scholor
2012/04/01 - 2015/03/31 National Museum of Ethnology National Museum of Ethnology
2009/04/01 - 2012/03/31 日本学術振興会 日本学術振興会特別研究員
Committee career (5):
2016/04 - 現在 新潟市文化財保護審議会 審議委員
2024/10 - 2026/10 日本民俗学会 第35期評議員・理事
2024/04 - 2025/03 長岡市文化財保護審議会 委員
2023/12 - 2024/10 日本民俗学会 第34期編集委員
2021/01 - 2023/01 日本民俗学会 国際民俗学会連合検討特別委員会委員
Awards (1):
2006/10 - 日本民俗学会 第26回日本民俗学会研究奨励賞
Association Membership(s) (6):
The Japanese Association for Rural Studies
, 日本島嶼学会
, American Folklore Society
, THE SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE FAMILY HISTORY
, THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY