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Shimpei Cole Ota

Shimpei Cole Ota is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shimpei Cole Ota rather than just read about it. In short: Shimpei Cole Ota (太田心平; born 1975) is a sociocultural anthropologist, sociocultural historian, researcher of Northeast Asian studies and curator of ethnology. He is an associate professor of cross-field research at the National Museum of Ethnology which is the largest research institute for the humanities in Japan and is one of the six members of the National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan (NIHU).

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Reference excerpt

Shimpei Cole Ota (太田心平; born 1975) is a sociocultural anthropologist, sociocultural historian, researcher of Northeast Asian studies and curator of ethnology. He is an associate professor of cross-field research at the National Museum of Ethnology which is the largest research institute for the humanities in Japan and is one of the six members of the National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan (NIHU). Ota is also working for the Graduate University for Advanced Studies as an associate professor of museum studies, and is affiliated at the American Museum of Natural History as a research associate of anthropology.

Career Ota was born in Osaka City and earned his BA (1998), MA (2000), then PhD (2007) in human sciences from Osaka University. He also completed an additional doctoral program in anthropology at Seoul National University from 2000 to 2003. Before joining NIHU, he lived in Korea for seven years.

Research Ota's research examines people's recognition of cultures. More specifically, he tries to explain how people and societies recognize their own cultural "change." What do the narratives and discourses of personal change and social shift epistemologically mean? He has pursued this question mainly through case studies of Korean political history and intellectual subculture. For example, his publications explore South Korean activists' recognition of Korean "democratization," and the cultural history of Korean scholar-bureaucrats from their descendants' point of view during the 17th to 19th centuries. Ota has also been conducting researches on Korean celadon ceramics, on oversea Koreans in Mainland China and United States, and on museum administration.

Note

References 아사쿠라 도시오・오타 심페이, ed. (2012). 한민족 해외동포의 현주소 (in Korean). 학연문화사. ISBN 978-89-5508-281-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

External links National Museum of Ethnology | Associate Professor Shimpei Ota Archived 29 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine American Museum of Natural History | Research Associate Shimpei Ota Shimpei Cole Ota (Personal Website)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Shimpei Cole Ota

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shimpei Cole Ota ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shimpei Cole Ota

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In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shimpei Cole Ota in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shimpei Cole Ota is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1975 births, Academics from Osaka, Anthropologist stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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