Menstruation and Anthropology
in the Era of Globalization

Members

A KAKEN research project “A comparative study on the local situation surrounding menstruation which became a global agenda” (2016—2020) was conducted by a team of eight female anthropologists: Elli SUGITA (P.I.), Mariko SHINMOTO (Co-P.I.), Sayaka AKIHO, Misako KANNO, Mizuho MATSUO, Kazuko OGUNI, Mine SATO, and Wakana SHIINO.

We started a new research project in 2020, “A comparative study on the influence of international development on menstruation: From the perspective of gender and medicalization.” Mariko SHINMOTO is the P.I. with Elli SUGITA as Co-P.I, and we have seven new members: Sohee CHE, Koji HAYASHI, Ian KARUSIGARIRA, Kaoru MURAKAMI, Emiko NAMIHIRA, Norio NIWA, and Chiaki OKADA. We are now an interdisciplinary team of 15 members!

Research field of members

Elli W. SUGITA

International Collaboration and Development Studies, Graduate School of Human Science, Osaka University

Keywords:: development anthropology, WASH, menstruation, African studies
URL:: http://www.dma.jim.osaka-u.ac.jp/view?l=en&u=10008784
http://ic.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Mariko SHINMOTO

Accessibility Center, Hiroshima University

Keywords:: Cultural Anthropology, hygiene, menstruation, gender, Oceania
URL:: https://researchmap.jp/shinmotom

Sayaka AKIHO

Organization for the Strategic Coordination of Research and Intellectual Properties, Island Cultural Centre, Meiji University

Keywords:: Development Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies, Rural Development
URL:: https://researchmap.jp/sayakaakiho/

Sohee CHE

Center for Cultural Resource Studies, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan

Keywords:: Medical anthropology, Postpartum period, folk illness, Korean Peninsula
URL:: https://www.minpaku.ac.jp/en/post-staff/11902

Misako KANNO

School of Global Studies and Collaboration (GSC), Aoyama Gakuin University

Keywords:: Cultural anthropology, Women’s Self-help group, menstruation, Indian Studies
URL:: https://raweb1.jm.aoyama.ac.jp/aguhp/KgApp?kyoinId=ymdkgdyiggy

Koji HAYASHI

Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan

Keywords:: African Area Studies, Ecological Anthropology, Sanitation Value Chain, Hunter-gatherers, Settlement
URL:: https://www.chikyu.ac.jp/sanitation_value_chain/en/members.html

Mizuho MATSUO-Gogate

Department of Cross-Field Research, National Museum of Ethnology

Keywords:: Cultural Anthropology, Gender, Reproduction, South Asian Studies
URL:: https://www.minpaku.ac.jp/en/post-staff/8797

Karusigarira IAN

National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Japan.

Keywords:: Relational Studies, Historical Sociology, Contentious Politics, Sexuality, Youth and Politics.
URL:

Kazuko OGUNI

Faculty of International Welfare Development/Graduate School of International Social Development, Nihon Fukushi University

Keywords:: Cultural Anthropology, Rural Development and Agriculture, Indonesian Area Studies
URL:: https://nfu-kg.n-fukushi.ac.jp/nfuhp/KgApp?kyoinId=ymimgkodggy

Kaoru MURAKAMI

Institute of Developing Economies. Japan

Keywords:: Turkey, Gender, Social Welfare, Citizenship
URL:: https://www.ide.go.jp/English/Researchers/murakami_kaoru_en.html

Mine SATO

Institute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University

Keywords:: International Development Studies, Social Anthropology, Community Design, Latin American Studies
URL:: https://er-web.ynu.ac.jp/html/SATO_Mine/en.html
https://minesato.com/

Emiko NAMIHIRA

Ochanomizu University, professor emeritus

Keywords:: Menstruation and impurity, women and reproduction
URL:: https://researchmap.jp/read0055558/research_experience

Wakana SHIINO

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Keywords:: Social Anthropology, East African Ethnography, Gender, Sexuality
URL:: http://www.tufs.ac.jp/research/researcher/people/shiino_wakana.html
http://wakana-luo.aacore.jp/

Norio NIWA

National Museum of Ethnology

Keywords:: Conflict, History, Cheer, Oceania
URL:: https://www.minpaku.ac.jp/en/post-staff/8788

Chiaki OKADA

Lifelong Education, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

Keywords:: Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), Lifelong Sport, Community Sport
URL:: http://www.dma.jim.osaka-u.ac.jp/view?l=en&u=1344