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Naomi C.F. Yamada

ヤマダ ナオミ C. F. | Naomi C.F. Yamada
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Contracted lecturer
Research field  (3): Cultural anthropology and folklore ,  Local studies ,  Sociology of education
Research keywords  (7): China ,  anthropology of policy ,  anthropology of education ,  preferential policies ,  ethnicity and nationalism ,  Sino-Tibetan borderlands ,  conflict discourse
Papers (7):
  • Naomi C. F. Yamada. Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Anxiety and the National College Entrance Exam, by Zachary M. Howlett. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. vii+266 pp. US$115.00 (cloth), US$29.95 (paper), US$19.99 (e-book). The China Journal. 2022. 87. 132-134
  • Naomi C. F. Yamada. From Empire to Nation State: Ethnic Politics in China, by Yan Sun. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020 x+368 pp. US$99.99/A$156.95 (cloth), US$34.99/A$56.95 (paper), US$28.00/S$28.00 (e-book). The China Journal. 2021. 86. 134-136
  • Yamada Naomi, Charity Furnish. Navigating the Sanyu: English as a Tool for Success in a Confucian Meritocratic Imaginary. Transcultural Flows of English and Education in Asian Contexts. 2016. 71-84
  • Yamada Naomi, Charity Furnish. From Free to Fee: Neoliberalising Preferential Policy Measures for Minority Education in China. Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences. 2015. 8. 3. 82-99
  • Yamada Naomi, Charity Furnish. Systemic Culture Shock: Meeting Fu Lai Ming on the Tibetan Plateau. At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands. 2015. 81-86
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Books (2):
  • Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China
    Routledge 2022 ISBN:0367491400
  • Area Studies Series: Hawaii
    2013
Lectures and oral presentations  (24):
  • Alienated from the Tautology: Media Literacy in the Wake of the Mueller Report
    (Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting 2020)
  • Nationalism, Dementia and the Asian-American Experience
    (Society for East Asian Anthropology Regional Conference 2019)
  • The Ambiguous Spaces of Ethnic Policy: Official Discourse and Lived Experiences in Qinghai
    (Association for Asian Studies 2019 Annual Conference 2019)
  • Error Prediction of Japanese First-Language Spkeakers: Some Similarities Between English and Chinese
    (The Second CEGLOC Conference on Language Education 2018)
  • Lamarck or Darwin? Reframing Concepts in the Second Language Classroom
    (Tsukuba Global Science Week 2018)
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Education (1):
  • - 2012 University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Anthropology
Work history (3):
  • 2016/10 - 2021/09 University of Tsukuba Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant Professor
  • 2015/04 - 2016/10 National Museum of Ethnology Visiting Researcher
  • 2013/04 - 2015/03 Chuo University Policy Studies Visiting Assistant Professor
Association Membership(s) (5):
Society for Applied Anthropology ,  American Anthropological Association ,  Society for East Asian Anthropology ,  Council on Anthropology and Education ,  Association for the Anthropology of Policy
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