Shimpei Cole Ota

Shimpei Cole Ota (太田 心平; 오타 심페이, 1975 – ) is a sociocultural anthropologist, sociocultural historian, researcher of Northeast Asian studies and curator of ethnology. He is an associate professor of social system at the National Museum of Ethnology which is one of the members of the National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan (NIHU). Ota is also working for the Graduate University for Advanced Studies as an associate professor of comparative studies, and for the American Museum of Natural History as a research associate of anthropology.[1]

Career

Ota earned his PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Osaka University in 2007, after having completed an additional doctoral program in anthropology at Seoul National University from 2000–2003. Before joining NIHU, he lived in Korea for seven years.[2]

Research

Ota's research examines people's recognition of cultures. More specifically, he tries to explain how people and societies recognize their own cultural "change." What do the narratives and discourses of personal change and social shift epistemologically mean? He has pursued this question mainly through case studies of Korean political history and intellectual subculture. For example, his publications explore South Korean activists' recognition of Korean "democratization," and the cultural history of Korean scholar-bureaucrats from their descendants' point of view during the 17th to 19th centuries. Ota has also been conducting researches on Korean celadon ceramics, on oversea Koreans in Mainland China and United States, and on museum administration.[3]

Note

  1. ↑ 아사쿠라・오타 (eds.) 2012, pp.346.
  2. ↑ http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~shimpei/en/
  3. ↑ http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~shimpei/en/

References

아사쿠라 도시오・오타 심페이, ed. (2012). 한민족 해외동포의 현주소 (in Korean). 학연문화사. ISBN 978-89-5508-281-4.

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