Taeko Udagawa is a Japanese anthropologist specialising in ethnographic studies of Italy and

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. She is a professor at Japan's National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan.

Biography

Udagawa completed a bachelor of arts degree at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

in 1978, and a master's of arts degree at the same university in 1984. From 1985 to 1987 Udagawa studied cultural anthropology at the University of Rome. She was a lecturer at Chubu University and

Kanazawa University Kanazawa University (, abbreviated to ) is a Japanese Japanese national university, national university in the city of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture. The university was founded in 1949, although it can trace it ...

before joining the National Museum of Ethnology in 2002.

Publications

* Udagawa, T. (2015). ''Jōhekinai kara miru itaria: Jendā o toinaosu''. Kyōto: Rinsenshoten. *Udagawa, T. (2009). ''Tagenteki kyōsei o motomete: Shimin no shakai o tsukuru''. Tōkyō: Tōshindō.

References

University of Tokyo alumni Japanese anthropologists Japanese women anthropologists Academic staff of Kanazawa University Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Scientists from Kanagawa Prefecture {{Japan-academic-bio-stub