No.188 Seminar ： A Geographer Going Native! Travel & Discovery Seeking the Survival Power of Human Being
- Associate Professor Takuya SOMA (Hakubi 10th batch, Wildlife Research Center)
- 2020/11/10 4:30pm
- Zoom (Closed)
- English/Japanese (to be decided on audiences on the day)
Summary
Mankind adapts to the extreme environment and lives in most part on the earth. The adaptation process included a clever survival strategy that used livestock and wild animals as “resources” and “companions.” In the presentation, as a classical field worker and geographer, I would like to consider the survival power of humankind from the ethnography by experiences obtained from long-term fieldworks in Altai Mountains (western Mongolia) and central Himalayan (Western Nepal). I would also like to discuss how the travel and human mobility restricted by COVID-19 cast a shadow over intellectual reproduction and discovery in the field.