Fuyubi Nakamura

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Anthropology of art
museum studies (working as curator at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC)
material and visual culture
Contemporary Japanese calligraphy
Indigenous cultures, especially Ainu
disaster and memory, especially in the context of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11).
contemporary Asian art and culture

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I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
 
 

Research Methodology

Ethnography
Collaborative research
International research
Object based research

Recruitment

Master's students
Doctoral students
2024

I am a socio cultural anthropologist, but am not a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and cannot supervise students in that department. I am a faculty member in the Department of Asian studies and supervise students in the graduate programs in Asian studies. 

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Publications

  • A Future for Memory (2021)
    Museum of Anthropology at UBC,
  • Hokkaidō 150 (2019)
    Critical Asian Studies, 51 (4), 597--636
  • Traces of Words (2017)
    Figure 1 Publishing and Museum of Anthropology at UBC,
  • (In)visible (2016)
    Museum of Anthropology at UBC,
  • Asia through Art and Anthropology (2013)
    Bloomsbury Academic,
  • Memory in the debris (2012)
    Anthropology Today, 28 (3), 20--23
  • Traces of Time, Traces of Words (2011)
    The National Museum of Oriental Art, Buenos Aires,
  • Ephemeral but Eternal Words (2010)
    The Australian National University School of Art Gallery,
  • Creating or Performing Words? (2007)
    Creativity and Cultural Improvisation ,
 
 

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