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Profile Information

Affiliation: Specially-appointed Researcher, Faculty of Bioenvironmental Science, Kyoto University of Advanced Science
: Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
: Specially-appointed Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3596-1407
J-GLOBAL ID: 202301007048035470
researchmap Member ID: R000053706

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2024 - Present

Specially-appointed Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Apr, 2024 - Present

Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Apr, 2024 - Present

Specially-appointed Researcher, Faculty of Bioenvironmental Science, Kyoto University of Advanced Science
Dec, 2022 - Mar, 2024

Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

Education

Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2022

Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University

Papers

6

Pain in Creation: Examining the Experience of Dhaka Weaving in Eastern Nepal

TAKAMICHI Yuko

Himalayan Study Monographs, (21), 2025
18

Pain in Creation: Examining the Experience of Dhaka Weaving in Eastern Nepal

Yuko TAKAMICHI

CHUMLUNG NIPPON, The official publication of KYC, Japan (2022-2024), 1(1) 149-181, Mar, 2024 Invited
Emotional Experience and Value of Cloth: An Ethnographic Study of Dhaka Weaving in Eastern Nepal

Yuko Takamichi

Kyoto University, Mar, 2022
An Ethnographic Study of the Production Practice of the Dhaka Fabric of Terhathum in Eastern Nepal

Yuko Takamichi

Studies in Nepali History and Society, 26(2) 231-252, Jan, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Local Handicraft and Fairtrade: Transformation of Dhaka Weaving in Terhathum, Eastern Nepal

Yuko Takamichi

Kyoto University, Mar, 2017

Misc.

Questions from the Minamata Sea (in Japanese)

魂うつれ, (82) 14-15, Jan, 2025
How Do We Perceive the Current Times: A Talk by Masato Ogata (Transcription and Composition in Japanese)

魂うつれ, (79) 6-13, Aug, 2023
Reading Guide for Nepal (in Japanese)

アジア・マップ：アジア・日本研究Webマガジン, 1(NP.5.04), Mar, 2023
Using the Hands, Moving the Body: Considering Japanese Handicrafts from Dhaka Weaving of Eastern Nepal (in Japanese)

魂うつれ, (76) 20-23, May, 2020
Minamata Evokes a Feeling of Being Alive: A Case Study of Craft Making (in Japanese)

創発 2019 臨地キャンパス・成果発信報告書, 6-8, Mar, 2020
Book Review: Mizuki Watanabe. 2018. Yūjō to sagi no jinruigaku: Nepāru no kankō shijō tameru no hōseki shōnin no minzokushi (An Anthropology of Friendship and Fraud: An Ethnography of Jewelry Merchants in Thamel, a Tourism Market of Nepal)

Yuko Takamichi

Studies in Nepali History and Society, 23(2) 491-494, Nov, 2018
Two Different Dhaka Weaves in Nepal (in Japanese)

月刊みんぱく, 41(10) 18-19, Oct, 2017
Visiting Minamata for the Second Time: How to Capture the People of Minamata in Their Daily Lives (in Japanese)

創発 2016 臨地キャンパス・成果発信報告書, 113-114, Mar, 2017
Minamata Workshop Initiatives: Loose Links Triggered by People Who Moved to Minamata (in Japanese)

創発 2017 臨地キャンパス・成果発信報告書, 34-36, 2017
Talking about Foreign Supporters: From the Interviews with Dhaka Weavers in the Eastern Hills of Nepal (in Japanese)

Yuko TAKAMICHI

Asian and African Area Studies, 15(2) 300-302, Mar, 2016

Books and Other Publications

In Search of Handwork: Daily Life in a Dhaka Weaving Workshop in Eastern Nepal (in Japanese)

Oct, 2023 (ISBN: 9784894898165)
The Vibrance of Indian Fabrics (in Japanese)

(Role: Contributor, Representations of Nationalism: Dhaka Weaving in Nepal)

Oct, 2021 (ISBN: 9784812221013)
Encyclopaedia of Indian Culture (in Japanese)

(Role: Contributor, Dhaka Weaving in Nepal)

Jan 26, 2018 (ISBN: 4621302353)

Presentations

Dhaka Weaving and Development Assistance in Eastern Nepal: A Study on the Concept of Culture as Creative Refusal

Yuko TAKAMICHI

The 7th Asian Consortium for South Asian Studies Conference, Nov 22, 2024
Pain in Creation: Examining the Experience of Dhaka Weaving in Eastern Nepal

Yuko Takamichi

Annual Conference on South Asia, Oct 19, 2023
Socio-economic Transformation and Cloth Formation: The Case Study of Dhaka Cloth in the Singalila Borderlands

Yuko Takamichi

Himalayan Studies Conference, Oct 15, 2022
How Local Handicraft Factories Developed: Transformation of Dhaka Weaving in Terhathum, Eastern Nepal

Yuko Takamichi

Workshop: Discussing Civil Society in South Asia, Apr 28, 2017
Local Handicraft and Fairtrade: Transformation of Dhaka Weaving in Terhathum, Eastern Nepal

Yuko Takamichi

Workshop: The Young Scholars International Workshop on Transdisciplinary Approaches to Asian and African Area Studies, Jan 16, 2017

Teaching Experience

Apr, 2024 - Present

アカデミック・スキル (びわこ成蹊スポーツ大学)
Apr, 2023 - Present

青年と社会教育 (大谷大学)
Apr, 2022 - Present

スタディ・スキルⅡ (びわこ成蹊スポーツ大学)
Apr, 2022 - Present

スタディ・スキルⅠ (びわこ成蹊スポーツ大学)
Apr, 2022 - Present

工芸研究（エスニック） (嵯峨美術大学)
Apr, 2024 - Sep, 2024

ヒマーラヤ地域論 (京都大学)
Sep, 2023 - Sep, 2024

フィールドワーク入門 (藍野大学)
Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2024

エスノグラフィを読む (甲南女子大学)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

多文化共生論 (京都精華大学)
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

文化メディア論B (甲南女子大学)

Professional Memberships

The Japanese Association for South Asian Studies

Research Projects

自然と文化の結節点としての手仕事―東ネパールにおける植物アロ利用の価値論的検討

科学研究費助成事業, 特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027

高道由子
自然と文化の結節点としての手仕事―東ネパールにおける植物アロ使用の価値論的検討

科学研究費助成事業, 研究活動スタート支援, 日本学術振興会, Aug, 2023 - Mar, 2025

髙道由子
グローバルな労働移動と手仕事の価値の再編

研究助成, 松下幸之助記念志財団, Oct, 2022 - Sep, 2023
感情的行為としてのものづくり―東ネパールにおけるダカ織の民族誌

科学研究費助成事業特別研究員奨励費, 特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

髙道由子
グローバル化するネパールの手工芸品を構成する人・モノ・情報のネットワーク

松下幸之助国際スカラシップ, 松下幸之助記念財団, Jun, 2018 - Mar, 2020