Kikuchi Akira

Ethnologist and associate professor at Kyoto University. Born in Hokkaidō in 1969. Did his undergraduate studies at Kyoto University and earned his doctorate at the University of Osaka. Won the 2002 Shigemori Kōen Photography Critic Award for a paper on Haga Hideo’s folkloric photography work. His publications include Yanagita Kunio to minzokugaku no kindai (Yanagita Kunio and Ethnology in the Modern Age) and Minzokugaku nyūmon (An Introduction to Ethnology).