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Work interests: research, editing, science communication
Affiliation/website: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Preferred contact method: Any
Preferred contact language(s): English, German
Contact: email = researchcooperative-at-gmail-dot-com
Favourite publications: Various, and especially the open access versions of older journals with effective review systems
Founding Member
Affiliations: 1996-present: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka. 1995: Freelance editor, Kyoto. 1994: JSPS Research Visitor, Kyoto University, Kyoto. 1993: Research Visitor, Australian National University, Canberra. 1991: Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.1990: STA Fellow, National Institute for Ornamental Plants, Vegetables, and Tea (NIVOT), Ano, Japan
Contact: National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka, Japan 565-8511
Biographical: Established the Research Cooperative in 2001
Favourite Publications: Various
Readings 2019 - another mixed bag
Recommended (fun and/or serious)
Agnelli, Marella (1987) Gardens of the Italian Villas. (in association with Luca Pietromarchi, Robert Emmett Bright, Federico Forquet), Rizzoli, New York.
Ambrosoli, Mauro (1997) The Wild and the Sown: Botany and Agriculture in Western Europe, 1350-1850. Cambridge University Press (translated by Mary McCann Salvatorelli from Italian to English).
Anan, Paro (2019) Being Gandhi. HarperCollins (Illustrations by Priya Kuriyan).
Graeber, David (2019) Bullshi*t Jobs: A Theory (The rise of pointless work and what we can do about it). Penguin.
Ishiguro, Kazuo (2001) [1986] An Artist of the Floating World. Faber and Faber.
Morike, Eduard (1968) [1914] Mozart auf der Reise Nach Prag (Novelle). Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart.
Muckenhoupt, Meg. (2018). Cabbage: A Global History. Reaktion Books, London (see book review).
Pearce, Michael (2017) The Mamur Zapt and the Donkey-Vous. HarperCollins.
Rebank, James (2016) The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District. Penguin (see book reivew).
Varoufakis, Yanis (2017) Talking To My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism. Vintage
Tolerable (books with some points of interest, so I finished reading them)
Kruger, Susanna S. (2017) My Mother's Story and Worth: Africa to Aotearoa (NZ, self-published family history with some general historical interest).
Mackintosh, Sophie (2018) The Water Cure. Penguin (depressing description of dystopia dominated by gender conflict).
