Research field (3)：
Cultural anthropology and folklore
, Physical anthropology
, Ecology and environmental science
Research keywords (13)：
Amazonia
, anthropology
, colonization
, frontier
, possession
, Brazil
, science and technology
, semiotics
, bureaucracy
, Umwelt
, human evolution
, ayahuasca
, equivocation
Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：
2023 - 2026 Ecological Anthropology of Mind on Ayahuasca: Prospects for Interdisciplinary Studies through the Concept of Neuroscape
2022 - 2026 Ecological Anthropology for Reconstitution of Amazonian Umwelt: A Case Studies for Ayahuasca Religions
2022 - 2025 Connecting Diverse Logics in Global Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach
2020 - 2024 The Origin and Evolution of Human Sociality:Developing New Theories of Human Evolution Based on Collaboration between Anthropology and Primatology
2019 - 2024 Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt
2018 - 2022 The Dynamics of Frontier Spaces in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia and Latin America
2020 - 2021 Ecological Dynamics of Citizenship in Amazônia
2016 - 2017 Anthropological Study for the Living Practices of Posseiros (Land Squatters) in Brazilian Amazon: With Special Focus on Agrarian Settlements in Northwestern Mato Grosso
2015 - 2016 Anthropological Study for Peasants' Social Movement and Political Economy in the Mid-Western Brazil: The Process of Agrarian Reform in the Federal State of Mato Grosso
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Papers (9)：
Takeshi Goto. Perception and Engagement for the Space by Amazonian Colonists: Aesthetics of Bureaucratic Practices in the Technology of Governance. "Who Controls the Space: The Anthropology of Territorial Governance" edited by Toru Sagawa, Hideyuki Okano, Takamasa Osawa and Kazunobu Ikeya. 2025. 63-93
Takeshi Goto. A Range in which Ecology, Physiology and Cognition Criscross: Evolution of Sociality from the Point of View of Psychedelic Religion. "Oscillations of <Sociality> Revealed in Field Studies: From an Encounter between Primatology and Anhropology" edited by Aya Kawai, Tatsuro Kawazoe and Haruka Taniguchi. 2025. 475-520
Takeshi Goto. Noise which Echoes on the Earth: Scenes of Colonial Encounter in Acre, Brazil. Journal of Cultural Antrhopology. 2024. 25. 71-93
Takeshi Goto. A simplificação do mundo pela indústria da soja tropical: com foco na interioridade e exterioridade das sementes transgênicas. Anales de Estudios Latinoamericanos. 2023. 43. 1-36
Takeshi Goto. The Condition of Land and Resource Acquisition in Amazonia: The Interplay of Property Regularization and Spontaneous Colonization. Journal of Andean and Amazonian Studies. 2021. 5. 1-32
<Book Review> "Amazon 500 Years: The Struggle for Colonization and Development" by Hiroaki Maruyama. Bulletin of Japanese Society of Latin American Studies. 2024. 143. 17-17
Takeshi Goto. Teaching from Amazonian Plants (Essay on Field Experience around the World). Monthly Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology. 2023. 47. 10. 14-15
<Book Review> "The Desert Development in Modern Egypt: Ethnography of Property and Use of Land" by Kazuaki Takemura. Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology. 2023. 88. 2. 363-365
Takeshi Goto. Techno-Ecography of Frontier Industrial Landscape:A Case Study of Property Fabrication by Amazonian Colonists (JJCA Vol.85-2 Extended Summary). Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology. 2020. 21. 2. 49-58
Takeshi Goto. A Short Break from Amazon Colonization Study: Ferry Trip on Juruena River. Field+. 2019. 21. 33-33
Books (3)：
Enteógenos: Mediações Ecológicas e Semióticas
Editora Appris, Curitiba, Brazil 2024 ISBN:9786525051253
Ecological Dynamics of Citizenship in Amazônia
Akashi Shoten 2021 ISBN:9784750351605
The Encyclopedia of Latin American Culture
Maruzen Publishing Co., Ltd. 2021
Lectures and oral presentations (25)：
Capital in Terms of Becoming "Otherwise": Focusing on the Force Immanent in Plants
(Inter-University Research Projects in the National Museum of Ethnology "Connecting Diverse Logics in Global Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach" 2025)
As equivocações em termos de bioquímica e experiência corporal: um caso do feitio do Santo Daime
(Encontro do Laboratório de Antropologia das Controvérsias Sócio-Técnicas (LACS) 2024)
Political Dynamics Generated by Vegetal Reconstitution of Human Agency: Concerning the Enhancement of Observation Still of Anthropologist's Own Body
(The 58th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology 2024)
Perspectivist Interpretation of Power Excercised at the Margin of Extractivist Economy: Historical Analysis of Shamanism in Rubber Estates in Amazonia
(Inter-University Research Projects in the National Museum of Ethnology "Connecting Diverse Logics in Global Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach" 2024)
Engineering Process for Demarcating Cultural Territories in Brazilian Amazonia: Becoming of Human and Plants Mediated by Ayahuasca
(Anthropoloy of the "Earth-Beings": "Human" and "Nature" in the Anthropocene. Japanese Society for Current Anthropology's Symposium 2024)
2010 - 2017 University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Doctoral Program in History and Anthropology
2014 - 2015 Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais Núcleo de Pesquisa em História
2005 - 2009 Tohoku University Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
2007 - 2008 Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India
1999 - 2003 Tohoku Gakuin University Faculty of Letters
Professional career (1)：
Ph.D. (University of Tsukuba)
Work history (10)：
2023/10 - 現在 Ritsumeikan University The Kinugasa Research Organization
2023/04 - 現在 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (RPD)
2022/10 - 現在 National Museum of Ethnology
2021/04 - 2024/04 National Museum of Ethnology
2019/04 - 2024/04 Shinshu University School of General Education
2018/10 - 2023/03 National Museum of Ethnology
2022/04 - 2022/06 University of Tsukuba School of Humanities and Culture, College of Comparative Culture
2018/04 - 2021/03 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
2018/04 - 2020/03 International College of Nursing Care & Childcare, Tochigi, Japan
2018/10 - 2018/12 University of Tsukuba School of Humanities and Culture, College of Humanities
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Association Membership(s) (4)：
Society for Andean & Amazonian Studies, Japan
, Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
, Japanese Association for Latin American Studies
, American Anthropological Association
