Yoshiko Yamamoto
Treganza Museum Director
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1986
Office: 379A - inside Hohenthal Gallery (Sci. 388),
Office Hours: By appt. only
Phone: (415) 338-1642, Email: yamamoto@sfsu.edu
Material Culture Studies, Traditional Agriculture, Arts and Crafts, Southeast Asia-Phillippines, Indonesia; Oceania, Asia-Japan; USA- Japanese Americans
Background
Cornell University PhD Anthropology and Southeast Asia Program 1986
Publications
A New Direction for an Ethnological Museum
the Beyond the Rim Project at the Treganza Anthropology Museum, 2008- To be presented at ICOME, Seoul, South Korea, October, 2009
ニアス文化を支えたもの‐二アス建築と巨大石彫刻の背景(Background of the Megalithic Sculpture and Traditional Houses of Southern Nias Villages)
Asian Forum, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International Christian University
May, 26, 2007, 国際基督教大学 アジア文化研究所, Tokyo, to be published in 2009 In 紀要、ICU, Tokyo. , International Christian University, Tokyo
Book Review:
Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity,
by Jennifer Kramer In The High Plains Applied Anthropologist 27 2:178-181, 2007, Colorado.
Projects
On establishing Museum Pusaka Nias (Heritage Museum)-
Nias Material Culture – Slave trade and its impact on the Material Culture or formation of their cultural heritage (Museum Pusaka Nias has a page in the Web)
Ema –
a study of Japanese votive offerings
Shigeru Kayano (recently deceased)–
his contribution to Ainu heritage
Tagalog and Ifugao Rice cultivation equipments –
a comparison of the Highland Rice Cultivation of the Ifugao vs Lowland Rice cultivation of the Tagalog in reference to the collections at the Riceworld, the International Rice Research Institute (for the IRRI’s 50th anniversary, 2010).
