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Okada Lab
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The lab traces the modernization of the Spanish-speaking world through history and anthropology.
AboutAbout the lab
Tracing modernity in the Spanish-speaking world.
The Okada Lab conducts area studies of the Spanish-speaking world, centered on Latin America and especially Mexico.
Its core disciplines are history and cultural anthropology, and it also pays attention to points of contact with Spain and the United States.
Its subjects so far include industrialization policy, development and irrigation projects, relations between local society and the central government, and the process of establishing the nation-state.
In recent years, the lab has been examining the media-related and social aspects of public space.
Key terms
- Area studies
- Research that seeks to understand a particular region by combining multiple disciplines, such as history, society, and culture
- Historical anthropology
- A field that combines the methods of history, which follows written records, and anthropology, which looks at people's ways of life
- Public space
- A place where anyone can come and go and where people meet, such as a square or a street
NewsLab news
Held an information session on joining the Social and Cultural Studies Area course (a lab visit is required to join)
Published the book "Media and Mexico: What Public Space and the Mass Media Convey"
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts area studies of the Spanish-speaking world, centered on Latin America and especially Mexico. Its underlying interest is in the various aspects and processes of modernization in the Spanish-speaking world, which it approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective built around history and cultural anthropology.
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- Associate ProfessorAtsumi Okada
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Agave field in Jalisco, Mexico” Tomascastelazo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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