Fumitaka Wakamatsu - My portal - researchmap

Profile Information

Affiliation: URA（主任専門業務職員）, 学術研究支援室, 京都大学

J-GLOBAL ID: 202001015608080582
researchmap Member ID: R000015167

Research Interests

4

Research Areas

1

Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore /

Research History

9

Feb, 2021 - Present

Project-Specific Lecturer (Cross Appointment), Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies Division of African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Apr, 2020 - Present

Research Administrator, Research Administration Office, Kyoto University
Jan, 2014 - Mar, 2020

Research Administrator, Research Administration Office, Kyoto University
Sep, 2013 - Dec, 2013

Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
Jan, 2011 - Apr, 2011

Food and Culture, Head Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Department, Harvard University
Sep, 2010 - Dec, 2010

Tokyo, Head Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Department, Harvard University
Jan, 2010 - Apr, 2010

Food and Culture, Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Department, Harvard University
Jan, 2006 - Apr, 2006

Tokyo, Head Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Department, Harvard University
Sep, 2005 - Dec, 2005

Introduction to Social Anthropology, Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Department, Harvard University

Education

2

Oct, 2003 - Oct, 2013

Anthropology Department, Social Anthropology Major, PhD Program, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Harvard University
Apr, 1998 - Sep, 2002

Department of Comparative Culture, Faculty of Comparative Culture, Sophia University

Papers

2

Constructing Killable Whales : Historical Formation of Japanese Cetology and Scientific Whaling

Fumitaka Wakamatsu

Senri Ethnological Studies = Senri Ethnological Studies, (104) 191-207, Mar 1, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
Historical Trends of Whale Meat Trade in Postwar Japan : From Substitutive Industrial Food to Traditional Post-Industrial Food

44(2) 323-346, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author

Misc.

2

Book Review: Living with Whales: Personal History of Whalers and Diachronic History of Eating Whales

Fumitaka Wakamatsu

Vesta, 107 74-75, Jul 12, 2017
Four hours of heated discussion: observations of the 1st Anthropological Battle

2 91-94, 2007

Books and Other Publications

4

Encyclopedia of Food Cultures in the World

Atsushi Nobayashi (Role: Contributor, ”Whales," ”Fat")

Maruzen Shuppan Press, Jan, 2021
In between Pro-Whaling and Anti-Whaling Movements: Whaling and Political and Ethical Issues in the World

(Role: Contributor, ”Japan’s Scientific Whaling")

Rinkawa Shoten, Nov, 2020 (ISBN: 9784653043898)
曝された生 : チェルノブイリ後の生物学的市民

Petryna, Adriana, 森本, 麻衣子, 若松, 文貴, 粥川, 準二

人文書院, Jan, 2016 (ISBN: 9784409530504)
Making of scientific whaling : politics of conservation, science, and culture in Japan

若松, 文貴

UMI, 2013