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Eriko Aoki

Ryukoku University, Japan

An emeritus professor in anthropology at Ryukoku University, Japan. She was granted a D.Phil. at the Australian National University. She has conducted anthropological research in central part of Flores Island, Indonesia since 1979 and in Japan since the late 1990s. Her theoretical interests are in semiotics, fetishism, modernity and enchantment. Her publications include Arts in the Margins of World encounters (writer and coauthor)(Vernon Press, 2021), "What Do Handwoven Textails do?" in A. Nakatani ed. Fashionable Traditions (Lexington Books, 2020), “The Case of the Purloined Statues“ in J.Fox ed. To Speak in Pairs: Essays on Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 1988) and “Korean Children, Textbooks, and Educational Practices in Japanese Primary School” in Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (Routledge, 2000). She also published a single-authored book in Japanese.

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