Scientific Program

Monday, September 25
Room Subaru
09:00 - 12:00 CS4: Is Diet the Measure of the Person? Gender, Status and Nutritional Differences Reflected in the Chemistry of their Bones
Organizer: Hiroko Koike, Kyushu University, Japan
   
Chairperson: Brian Chisholm, University of British Columbia, Canada
09:00 Brian Chisholm, University of British Columbia, Canada
The Use of Stable Isotopic Analysis in Paleodiet, and Individual Differences
09:20 Minoru Yoneda, Ryo Suzuki, Atsushi Tanaka, Yasuyuki Shibata, and Masatoshi Morita, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
Isotopic Analyses of the Jomon Human Skeletons from the Shimoohta Shell Midden, Chiba, Japan
09:40 Hiroko Koike, Kyushu University, Japan
Trophic Level and Gender Differences in Paleodiet
10:00 Coffee break
   
Chairperson: Hiroko Koike, Kyushu University, Japan
10:15 M.P. Richards, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
Stable Isotope Analysis Reflects Gender and Status Differences in Diets at a Number of European Archaeological Sites
10:35 Joseph A. Ezzo, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Social and Ecological Implications of Dietary Differences between Men and Women at Grasshopper Pueblo, Arizona
10:55 Diane Lyons, Simon Fraser University, Canada; Brian Chisholm, University of British Columbia, Canada; and Hiroko Koike, Kyushu University, Japan
Gender, Status and Dietary Differences; How Visible are they in Prehistoric Japanese HumanŐs Bones?
11:15 Coffee break
11:25 Panel Discussion: Problems with and Applications of Isotopic Analysis in Paleodiet Studies
Chairpersons: Brian Chisholm, University of British Columbia, Canada
  Hiroko Koike, Kyushu University, Japan
Participants: The session presenters
   
Room 601
9:00 - 12:00 / 13:00 - 17:00 CS7: A New Look At Homo erectus: Its Biology, Culture, and Dispersals
Organizers: Gen Suwa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hisao Baba, National Science Museum, Japan
Chairperson: Hisao Baba, National Science Museum, Japan
09:00 Sigehiro Kato, Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Japan; M. Hyodo, Kobe University, Japan; G. Woldegabriel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; and W. K. Hart, Miami University, USA
Chronostratigraphy and Correlation of the Latest Pliocene to Pleistocene Sequences at Konso, Ethiopia
09:25 Yonas Beyene, Minsitry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Ethiopia
The Emergence and Development of the Early Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia
09:50 Gen Suwa, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Berhane Asfaw, Rift Valley Research Service, Ethiopia; H. Nakaya, Kagawa University, Japan; and Sigehiro Katoh, Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Japan
The Faunal Assemblages and Homo erectus Occurrences of Konso, Ethiopia
10:15 Coffee break
10:30 Haruo Saegusa, Himeji Insititue of Technology, Japan; H. Nakaya, Kagawa University, Japan; and H. Gilbert, University California, Berkeley, USA
Palaeoloxodon Dispersal Patterns and Its Relevance to Hominid Movement and Distributions
10:55 Berhane Asfaw, Rift Valley Research Service, Ethiopia
Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
11:20 Eitan Tchernov and L. K. Horwitz, Hebrew University, Israel
Hominid Dispersal Events through the Levantine Corridor: New Data and Perspectives
11:45 Lunch break
   
Chairperson: Gen Suwa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
13:00 Erksin Gulec, Ankara University, Turkey
The Earliest Turkish Hominids: Archaeological and Faunal Evidence from Dursunlu, Central Anatolia.
13:25 Teuku Jacob, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Forty Years of Paleoanthropological Research in Sangiran
13:50 Aziz Fachroel, Geological Research and Development Centre, Indonesia; Hisao Baba, Yousuke Kaifu, National Science Museum, Japan; and Teuku Jacob, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Stone Artifacts From the 2001 Excavation at Tanjung, Sangiran, Central Jawa
14:15 Coffee break
14:30 Hisao Baba, National Science Museum, Japan; Aziz Fachroel, Geological Research and Development Centre, Indonesia; Yousuke Kaifu, National Science Museum, Japan; Johan Arif, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia; and Yahdi Zaim, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Facial Morphology of Jawanese Homo erectus
14:55 Etty Indriati, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Cranial Lesions on the Indonesian's Homo Erectus Ngandong 7
15:20 Yousuke Kaifu, Hisao Baba, National Science Museum, Japan; Aziz Fachroel, Geological Research and Development Centre, Indonesia; F. Schrenk, Research Insitute Senckenberg, Germany; Teuku Jacob, Etty Indriati, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia; Johan Arif, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
Evolutionary History of the Jawanese Homo erectus as Viewed from the Dento-Gnathic Evidence
15:45 General Discussion
Chairperson: Gen Suwa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  Hisao Baba, National Science Museum, Japan
   
Room 606
9:00 - 12:00 / 13:00 - 17:00 IS4: Growth and Maturation of Asian Children
Organizer: Kumi Ashizawa, Otsuma Women's University
Chairperson: Kumi Ashizawa, Otsuma Women's University, Japan
13:00 Francisco A. Datar, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Globalization and Changing Food Pattern: Its Impact on the Growth of Children in an Agricultural Community in the Philippines
13:15 Neni T. RahmawatiI and J. Hastuti, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Growth and Somatotype of Urban and Rural Indonesian Children
13:30 Francoise Rouville-Sausse, National Museum of Natural History, France
Body Mass Index and Nutrition of the Children Born to Chinese Immigrant Parents Living in France
13:45 Takashi Satake, Nihon University school of Dentistry at Matsudo, Japan
Individual Variation in Seasonal Growth of Japanese Children 3-6 Years of Age
14:00 Paul B. N. Naamon, Simons Rock College of Bard and the University at Albany, USA
Preliminary Results from a Longitudinal Study of Child Growth from Birth to Three Years of Age in a Socio-Hierarchically Stratified Japanese Population
14:15 Coffee break
Chairperson: Neni T. Rahmawatil, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
14:35 Kumi. Ashizawa, C. Kumakura, X. Zhou, A. Kusumoto, Otsuma Women's University, Japan; F. Jin and J. Cao, Institute of Genetics, Academia Sinica, China
Allometric Growth of Chest Circumference, Upper Arm Circumference, and Skinfold Thicknesses of Children in Tokyo, Beijing and Manila
14:50 Toshio Kawabe, Takasaki City University of Economics, Japan; and Yukio Kuchikura, Gifu University, Japan
Growth and Physique of Semaq Beri Hunter-Gatheres in Malaysia
15:05 Renu Gulati and Kumud Khanna, IHE, India
Awareness about Reproductive Health among Indian Adolescent Girls and Their Nutritional Status from India
15:20 Arup Ratan Bandyopadhyay, Manasi Das and Jayeeta Ghoshal Roy, University of Calcutta, and Visva-Bharati University, India
A Study on Body Mass Index and Age at Menarche in a Munda Tribal Population of West Bengal, India
15:35 Braja Kishori Mishra, Sambalpur University, India
Nutritional Anthropometry among the Tribal Children in the Urban Setting of Sambalpur Orissa
   
Room 701
9:00 - 12:00 / 13:00 - 17:00 OS2: Open Session 2
   
Chairperson: Stuart Henry, Showa Women's University, Japan
09:00 Takashi Kaneko, Bukkyo University at Kyoto, Japan
Technique of Safety to Transgress: Among the Formation of Discourses and Establishment of Techniques of Body
09:20 Satsuki Kawano, University of Notre Dame, USA
The Meiji State and the Production of Moral Bodies
09:40 Coffee break
10:00 Dessislav Sabev, Lavel University, Canada
Reworking the Past in the Post-Communist Imagination: The Uses of the Body in the Building of Images of Success in Bulgaria
10:20 Stefan Dorondel, Universite Libre de Bruxells, Romania
"They're Coming Back": Soul, Witchcraft and Funerary Practices in Southern Romania
10:40 Stefan Dorondel, Universite Libre de Bruxells, Romania
Farmers, Fishers and Property: Patterns of Decollectivisation in Two Villages From Southesat Romania
11:00 Svetlana M. Tchervonnaia, Russian Institute for Cultural Researches, Russia
A Poor Human on the Alien Land : Acute Social Problems of the Kuril Islands' Population Today
11:20 Natalia Sergeeva, Kemerove State University, Russia
Problems of Semantic Compositions with Rock Elk Inscriptions in the Siberian Taiga Zone
11:40 Lunch break
   
Chairperson: Motoji Matsuda, Kyoto University, Japan
13:00

Jin Chunzi, China Urban Anthropology Association, China
The Great West Development and the Conservation of the Culture of the Ethnic Groups in China

13:20 A. H. M. Zehadul Karim, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
The Traditional Culture in Transition: A Socio-Economic Inpsct on the Santal Community in Bangladesh
13:40 Maheen Sabreena Karim and A. H. M. Zehadul Karim, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
The Christianization Impact of the Santals in the Barind Regions of Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of Culture Change
14:00 Coffee break
14:20 Emiko Namihira, Ochanomizu University, Japan
"Hullucination" and Healing in the Context of Folk Belief in Amami Islands, Japan
14:40 Kameshwar Prasad Singh, University of Ranchi, India
An Anthropological Study of Women's Health Status in India with Special Focus on Tribal Woman of Jharkhand State
15:00 Junko Date, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Health Acculturation of Yemenis over the Last 50 Years
   
Room 706
9:00 - 12:00 / 13:00 - 17:00 CM5: Indigenous Knowledge and Problems of Sustainability
Organizer: Viatcheslav Roudnev, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Chairperson: Viatcheslav Roudnev, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, Russia
09:00 Hiroshi Aoyagi, Kokushikan University, Japan
Fishing Amidst the Glocal Flow: How Okinawa's New Generation Sustains the Wisdom of Uminchu.
09:20 Dorothy K. Billings, Wichita State University, USA
Sustainable Development and Mining: Unlikely Partners.
09:40 Deepak K. Behera, Sambalpur University, India
Indigenous Knowledge and Survival Strategies in a Tribal Community of Orissa, India
10:00 Coffee break
   
Chairperson: Dorothy Billings, Wichita State University, USA
10:15 Viatcheslav Roudnev, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, Russia
Folk Experience in Farming: Significance for the Present and for Perspectives
10:35 Elena Fursova, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of RAS, Russia
Ecological Broadcasting Knowledge as a Factor of Sustainable Development of Siberian Peoples at the End of 20th - Beginning 21st Century
10:55 Pramod Mishra and Niranjan Behera, School of Life Sciences, India, and Sambalpur University, India
Community-Based Water Resource Management with Emphasis on Water Quarity Improvement and Resource Recovery
11:15 Coffee break
11:25 Discussion
   
Chairperson: Viatcheslav Roudnev, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS, Russia
13:00 Yasuko Nagai, SIL- Papua New Guinea
Teaching Children Indigenous Culture and Language - Whose Responsibility Is It? A Case Study in Papua New Guinea
13:20 Thomas Iverson, Rebecca Stephenson and Hiro Kurashina, University of Guam, USA
Guest Perceptions of Balinese Taboos
13:40 Ajit Danda and A. Ota, Utkal University, India
Indigenous Knowledge and Problems of Sustainability
14:00 Coffee break
14:15 Niranjan Behera, School of Life Sciences, India; and Pramod Mishra, Sambalpur University, India
Forest Diversity as the Source of Subsistence of Kandha Tribe in Orissa, India
14:35 Vladimir Podmaskin, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East Ras, Russia
The Tradition of Health Care and Healing among the Peoples of the Lower Amur and Sakhalin: Historical Ethnographic Material of 19th-20th Centuries
14:55 Tsysyk Budaeva, Institute of Mongolian, Buddhological and Tibetan Studies, Russia
Herb Preparations in the People's Medicine of the Buryat from Russia
15:15 Coffee break
15:25 Eva Skobalj, Ljubljana University, Slovenia
Eco-Villages and Their Role in Dissemination of Environmentally Sound Development
15:45 Discussion