Kambara (-Yamane) Yuko

This paper considers methodological questions regarding cultural/social anthropological research in multiethnic fields. Specifically, I attempt to reconsider the possibility of anthropological research by a “stranger” based on a research that I—a Japanese anthropologist—conducted in southern Slovakia. Anthropology originally developed as the study of other cultures; in some European countries, however, most anthropological research is conducted by anthropologists who are “at home”. For Slovak and Hungarian researchers, the Hungarian minority has been a common research target; therefore, many inhabitants, both ethnic Hungarians and Slovaks, have already experienced social research as subjects. Some interviewees get use to present a narrative expressing how they think about a certain topic. This research condition points to a fundamental question in the interviews of anthropological research. In this paper, therefore, my research experience is described to analyze reflexively my resea...

Yuko KAMBARA 2018 Hungarian “Minority” Networks and Borderland Community under Political Influences of the Slovak-Hungarian Cross-border Cooperation. In Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube 3: Rethinking the meaning of Symbiosis-Past Present and Future.Osamu Ieda and Susumu Nagayo (eds)  pp.93-112, Tokyo: Waseda University Press. ISBN978-4-657-18003-2

Yuko KAMBARA 2014 Slovak Perspectives on the Hungarian Minority: The Possibility of an Ethnographic Approach to Nationalism and Multi-ethnic Experiences. In "Transboundary symbiosis over the Danube: EU integration between Slovakia and Hungary from a local border perspective (Slavic Eurasian Studies 27)", Osamu Ieda (ed.), pp.17-31, Sapporo: Slavic Research Center Hokkaido University. (ISBN: 978-4-938637-805)

Yuko KAMBARA 2015 Ethnic Symbiosis - Spolužitie on the Way to a Democratic State: Perspectives Regarding “Ethnic Conflict” by Hungarian Minority Elites in Southern Slovakia Slavic Eurasian Studies In "Transboundary Symbiosis over the Danube 2: Road to a Multidimensional Ethnic Symbiosis in the Mid-Danube Region (Slavic Eurasian Studies 29)", Ieda Osamu and Nagayo Susumu (eds), pp.175-195, Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Hokkaido University.　(ISBN:978-4-938637-80-4)