Currently I am working on three subjects in Africa and one in Asia.
Since 10 years, I am continuing ethnoichthyological exploration among the Bantu fishermen and the Baka hunter-gathrers of southeastern Cameroon and recently also in Congo
Brazzaville for a comparison. Since 5 years I am observing the change of indigenous
value system in relation to subsistence change among the local populations of southeastern Cameroon. Since 2009, I started to study TEK on tropical rainforest vegetation dynamics in collaboration with Camerooninan botanists.
In Japan, I am running a international collaborative project as a head on biology and economy of Matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake and related species) mushrooms, one of the most expensive NTFP from warm temperate forest in all over the world.
I am used to a descriptive approach in ethnobiology (which have been often employed by Japanese scholars). I am weak in recent advances in theoretical aspect of ethnobiology. It seems there is a separation in ethnobiological methods; those of cultural, linguistic and psychological approaches and those of biological, ecological, or evolutionary approaches. I would like to learn recent challenges concerning these points through my participation to the workshop.
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