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Ippei Shimamura

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Japanese anthropologist

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According to Wikipedia, is a Japanese anthropologist who is best known for his ethnographic work on shamanism and ethnic identity among Mongol Buryats, which has won multiple awards. Currently he is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Mongolian Studies in the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. Working for 15 years in the School of Human Cultures at the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, he joined the Minpaku on April Ist in 2020. Between April 2004 and September 2005 he was a research fellow at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka and between October 2011 and March 2012 he was a visiting scholar at Mongolia and Inner Asian Studies Unit in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Shimamura originally studied law at Waseda University , but after visiting Mongolia with a film crew he decided to return to that country in 1995 and begin his studies as an anthropologist. He completed a master's degree in Ethnology at the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar in 1998, being the first person from Japan to do so. Returning to Japan after living in Mongolia for 6 years, Shimamura completed his Ph.D. in March 2004 at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Hayama in Kanagawa Prefecture. His dissertation research was later published as a book, first in Japanese and then later in English under the title The Roots Seekers: Shamanism and Ethnicity Among the Mongol Buryats .

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