"Southern Nias Craftsmanship Amidst the Development of the Island between 1977 and 1983," In Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography, No.11, 1997

 The Seat Remains In Villages - The Bond Between the Dead and the Living in Southern Nias, presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Atlanta, GA, November 1994

 Book Review: Society and Exchange in Nias by Andrew Beatty, the Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 52, No. 3:771-772 (Aug. 1993)

 "Anthropologist's View of Indonesian Basketry," Exhibition Catalog: Palm, Bamboo, Rattan - Living Tradition of Indonesian Basketry," Hohenthal Gallery, Adan E. Treganza Anthropology Museum, SFSU, 1991

 The Megalithic Culture of Southern Nias, the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Conference, Ann Arbor, MI,1987

 A Sense of Tradition - An approach to the Nias Material Culture, PhD dissertation in Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1986.

 "Basketry Works of Nias Woman - An Application of Soetsu Yanagi's Idea of Mingei," Wenner-Gren Foundation Report No. 3356, 1983

 "On the Meanings of Babaylan in Historical Perspective," web site for the San Francisco Babaylan, Art Gallery, SFSU, September 1998

 "The Legacy of Eduardo Masferre - An Appreciation of Functional Beauty," brochure for the exhibition, Peoples of the Luzon Mountains, 1995 - Philippine Photographs by Eduardo Masferre, Washington Gallery, San Francisco, CA, traveling exhibition, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History) 1995

 "An Ethnographer's New Efforts: Collecting Tagalog Agricultural Implements for the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)", presented at the Central Anthropological Association Conference (CAAC), Beloit, WI, 1993

 "Tagalog Rice Cultivation Tools and Equipment," AAS Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1988

Two Philippines Rice Farming Traditions (brochure for the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Los Banos: IRRI, 1985

Frederick Starr as an advocate of Japanese culture—The observer observed in early 20th century Japan, Symposium organized by American Anthropological Association: Frederick Starr— Contextualizing the Works of a Disciplinary Ancestor, Washington DC 2005 (to be published 2007)

When Japanese address deities ... Art of Ema rituals, paper presented at the Semiotic Society of the America, Purdue University, September 2000. In SEMIOTICS 200 "SEBEOK'S CENTURY," 2001:179-182.

Highlights - 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Farm Tools and Material Culture - Photographs of Exhibition designed by Yamamoto In Impact of Science on Rice, IRRI, 1985:xv

 "Koichi Kimura, (Akita, Japan)", In Insights of outstanding farmers. Los Banos, Philippines : International Rice Research Institute, with Fe B Gascon pp.15-20. ( IRRI), 1985

 Namahage なまはげ- A Festival of the Northeast of Japan, Philadelphia: ISHI Inc.1978 

Translation of Summary (with Prof. Hiroko Sue Hara) 済洲島 (Che Ju Do or Quelpart Islanders), pp. 3-27,  泉靖一著 (by Seichi Izumi) 東京大学東洋文化研究所報告　(Toyo Bunka Kenkyu Sho Hokoku), 1966, Tokyo

   NORTH AMERICA

Book Review Switchbacks—Art, Ownership and Nuxalk National Identity by Jennifer Kramer, University of British Columbia Press (UBC Press) (to be published in High Plains Applied Anthropologist (HPSfAA) 2006

 Book Review: Preserving what is valued—Museums; Conservation, and First Nations, by Miriam Clavir, UBC Press. In HPSfAA vol. 24, No. 1 Spring 2004:68-70.

Book Review:  East and Southeast Asian Material Culture in North America:  Collections, Historical Sites, and Festivals by Patricia Haseltine, compiler (Material Clulture Directories No. 3 Greenwood Press, New York) Journal of Asian Studies, 50:1

 学士論文より“ターナー学説におけるナショナリズムとセクショナリズム”In　史論(Historica)第八集：562-569, 1960 東京女子大学　文学部　社会科学科　歴史部門、東京

Research Interests and Current Activities

Material Culture, Semiotics, Ethnology, Museology, Rice Culture, Ritual Analysis, History of American Anthropology

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