Naito Lab

AboutAbout the lab

Knowing others, knowing ourselves.

The Naito Lab conducts research on people's lifeworlds, with Latin America and Spain as its fieldwork sites.
It studies the lives of people who tend to be labeled “socially vulnerable,” such as the poor and Indigenous peoples, and how they respond to globalization.
Unpacking the various phenomena and problems encountered in the field leads to questions of how to understand others and how to live together with them.
The lab specializes in cultural anthropology as a methodology in which the gaze turned toward others comes back to oneself.

ResearchResearch themes

Using Latin America (mainly Chile and Mexico) and Spain as its fieldwork sites, the lab studies the lifeworlds of people who tend to be labeled “socially vulnerable” and how they respond to globalization. It specializes in cultural anthropology as a methodology in which the gaze turned toward others returns to oneself.

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“Women with No Mind and No Body”↗

In a presentation titled “Women with No Mind and No Body,” the lab re-examines, from a cultural anthropology perspective and based on research in Chile, Mexico, and elsewhere, how women who are easily placed in vulnerable positions in society live their lives.

VoicesStudent voices

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