Oversea Collaborators
Overseas Research Institutes Collaborating with this Program for the Dispatch of Young Researchers
1. USA: The UCLA Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC)
CLIC is a world-class research institute with a faculty of preeminent scholars in linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis and interaction analysis. Every year, the Center is visited by a large number of top caliber researchers in related fields from all over the world.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/
2. Botswana: University of Botswana
The University of Botswana is one of the major universities in southern Africa. The University’s Basarwa Research Center houses a collection of valuable research materials on the San people (known as the Basarwa in Botswana) that researchers of Kyoto University have been studying for many years. In addition, the University of Botswana and ASAFAS concluded a research collaboration agreement in 2007 and are now implementing educational and research exchanges.
3. France: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
INALCO is the central institute for Asian and African languages, for Oceanic languages and for cultural research into those regions.
4. Madagascar: University of Antananarivo
As well as being the foremost research institute in contemporary Madagascan language studies, the University of Antananarivo also has an immeasurable influence on the linguistic policy of the government of Madagascar.
http://www.univ-antananarivo.mg/
5. United Kingdom: The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
SOAS is the world’s oldest institute for Asian and African area studies and has excelled in the political, economic, and cultural research of Asian and African countries since the age of British colonial rule.
6. India: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)
CSDS was established in 1963 in order to create projects embodying new forms of intellectual inquiry that transcend the barriers between universities and specialist fields. Active in accepting scholars from all countries, CSDS has become the base of an extensive network that extends to Europe and North America as well as throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America.
7. India: Tamilnadu Agricultural University (TNAU)
The field station established by ASAFAS at TNAU has supported the field work of ASAFAS students in many ways, including the selection of villages to be studied, the introduction of interpreters and the selection of private homes for students stays.
8. Zambia: University of Zambia
The Institute of Economic and Social Research (INESOR), which has evolved from the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute established as a base of British applied anthropology, houses large amounts of valuable materials from the colonial age.
9. USA : University of HAWAI'I MANOA
The University of HAWAI'I at MANOA houses plenty of bibliography and historical records,bring in researchers and students not merely from whole USA but from all over the world,and become a base of an Oceania area studies in both name and reality.
10. Republic of Palau : Belau National Museum
Belau National Museum is the oldest museum in the Micronesian region,houses precious records such as culture, society, history of Palau. Since established in 1955, this institution plays the dominant role in joining local residents, researchers, and tourists.