Ayami NAKATANI

Ayami NAKATANI

Professor in Anthropology,
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences

OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY
3-1-1, Tsushima-Naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, JAPAN
E-mail: nakatani*cc.okayama-u.ac.jp (Replace * by @)

Ayami Nakatani specializes anthropology of gender and work. She has conducted long-term research in a weaving village located in North-eastern part of Bali, Indonesia, and more recently in the Netherlands. Her research topics include the perception and practice of women's work in the changing socio-economic context in Bali, the production and consumption of Indonesian and other textiles in Japan, and the reconciliation of working lives with family obligations in the Netherlands and Japan. She currently leads a JSPS-funded research group on the theme of "Comparative studies of the production, marketing and consumption of traditional textiles in the Asian region."

Her publications include "'Eating Threads': Brocade as Cash Crop for Weaving Mothers and Daughters in Bali", in Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century, edited by R. Rubinstein & L. H. Connor, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999, 'The Emergence of "Nurturing Fathers" in The Changing Japanese Family, edited by M. Rebick et al., London: Routledge, 2006, "Housewives' work/ mothers' work: The changing position of housework in Dutch society", in Asian Women and Intimate Work, edited by Kaoru Aoyama and Emiko Ochiai, Brill, 2013, and "Dressing Miss World with Balinese brocades: The "fashionalization" and "heritagization" of handwoven textiles in Indonesia," Textile; Journal of Cloth and Culture, 13(1): 30-49, 2015.