Born in Tokyo, brought up there; anthropological fieldwork in Bali; teaching anthropology in Niigata, Japan.

Publications:

books:

2012 N. Yoshihara, K. Nakamura and H. Hasebe, Lontar Documents of Bali: Awig-awig Mengwi and Awig-awig Subak Lañahan Kerobokan, Toshindô. [Balinese transliteration, Indonesian, Japanese translation and comments]

2006 T. Sugishima and K. Nakamura (eds.), Local societies in Indonesia today: Micrological approach, NTT Publishing. [in Japanese.]

1998 T. Yoshida, H. Kagami and K. Nakamura. Balinese People, Tokyo: Kobundo. [in Japanese]

1994 R. Kohno and K. Nakamura (eds.) Bali: the island of gods, Tokyo: Shunjusha. [in Japanese]

articles:

2020 'Reconsider Witchcraft, Religion and Science: or ir-Rationality in Witchcraft,' Kawada, M., Ch. Shirakawa, and T. Iida (eds.), Witchcraft in Modern World: Anthropological Explorations, Shunpu-sha. pp.81-107. [in Japanese]

2019 'The Place of Origin: Rethinking agency of lands in Bali,' Sugishima, T. ed. Anthropology of Communicational Ontology, Fukio-sha. pp.201-235. [in Japanese]

2016 'On “Time-Space Compression ”and its Consequences in Bali,' Studies in Humanities 139: 21-46. [in Japanese]

2014 "The Transformation of a Customary Village in Bali and its Non-Holistic Interpretation," in Sugishima, T. (ed.), Anthropology of Multiplegame ——Designs and Practices from the Southeast Asia. Fukyosha [in Japanese]

2009 "Tradition" and "modernity" in Bali. N. Yoshihara and A. Kurasawa (eds.), Bali: Changed and Unchanged. Tokyo: Benseishuppan, pp. 52-68. [in Japanese]

2003 Bali's Last Resort: Writing Ethnography of Balinese Adat. IIAS Newsletter 32: 26. The International Institute for Asian Studies.

2000 The construction of “tradition”: medical pluralism in Bali. Studies in Humanities 103: 1-23. [in Japanese]

book reviews:

2001 review of H. Kagami, Seisaku Bunka no Jinruigaku (Anthropology of Culture and Policy). Asia Keizai, no.3 [in Japanese]

Translations: 2008 Kami wa naze irunoka?[Japanese translation by K. Suzuki and K. Nakamura] (P. Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought. Basic Books, 2001).

2002 Hyuuman yunivaasaruzu. Tokyo: Shin'yosha. [Japanese translation by K. Suzuki and K. Nakamura] (D. Brown, Human Universals, McGraw-Hill Companies, 1991).

1994 Putu Setia no Bari annai. Tokyo: Mokuseisha. [Japanese translation by H. Kagami and K. Nakamura] (Putu Setia, Menggugat Bali, PT Bali Post.)