Description: "First published in Japanese by Kyoto University Press in 2020 as Kyokugen - Jinrui shakai no shinka."--title page verso.
Brief description: KAWAI Kaori is a Japanese cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on East African anthropology. She is currently Professor at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her involvement in cultural anthropological research in Kenya began in 1986, and she completed a PhD in Science at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, in 1994. She was Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Shizuoka University, and Associate Professor at the Institute for Asian and African Languages and Cultures, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, before taking up her current position as Professor at the ILCAA in 2015.