Fieldnet Lounge 2025 "The Order and Ethics Created by Slaughter and Meat Consumption: A Comparative Ethnographic Study of Asian Regions"
This symposium examines, from a comparative ethnographic perspective, how the modernization of slaughter practices and meat consumption has generated new forms of order and ethics across various nation of Asia. Specifically, it aims to theoretically explore the reconfiguration of human–animal relations in contemporary societies by focusing on themes such as the maintenance and transformation of religious practices, the introduction of institutionalized hygienic and ethical standards, and the reconstruction and reorganization of slaughterers’ professional identities.
Details
●Date：2026/02/01(Sun) 14:00-18:25
●Place：306 : Multimedia Seminar Room, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
●Language：Japanese
●Admission：Free
●Pre-registration：Not required
●Contact：shuangyue.bao.b8[at]tufs.ac.jp（※Change [at] to @）
●主催：TUFS Field Scienct Commons（TUFiSCo）；Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
Program
| 14:00-14:05 | Greeting from Fieldnet | |
| 14:05-14:10 | Opening Remarks | Shuangyue Bao(Tohoku University) |
| 14:10-14:40 | "Vibration" and the Fragmentary Legitimization of Ritual-Slaughtering: The Perception of Supernatural Agency through Drumming among "Animal Sacrifice and Meat-Selling Castes" in Nepal | Kanako Nakagawa(Otemon Gakuin University) |
| 14:40-15:10 | "What Is an 'Indigenous Chicken': The Expansion of the Meat Market and Practices of Slaughter in Indonesia" | Kei Nishikawa(Ishinomaki Senshu University) |
| 15:10-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Configuring Social and Economic Order through the Expansion of the Meat Industry: The Case of the Meat Market in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region | Shuangyue Bao(Tohoku University) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Qaṣṣāb Is Not Part of the ʾUmmah: Professional Ethics of Slaughterers and the Emergence of Social Order in Hui Muslim Communities | Mitsuo Sawai(Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | A More Virtuous Way to Relinquish Livestock: The Interplay of Economic Gain and Karmic Debt among Tibetan Pastoralists | Yusuke Bessho(Komazawa University) |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:20 - 18:20 | Plenary Discussions | |
| 18:20 - 18:25 | Closing Remarks | Mitsuo Sawai(Tokyo Metropolitan University) |