Prof. Atsushi Yamada (ILCAA Joint Researcher) was awarded the 2019AY special award of Hokkaido Ethnological Society for the descriptive study of Parauk Wa, especially for “Parauk Wa” published from ILCAA

Prof. Atsushi Yamada (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Health Care College) was awarded the 2019AY special award of Hokkaido Ethnological Society for his descriptive study of Parauk Wa in the Yunnan Province (China) especially including Parauk Wa published in 2020.

The book Parauk Wa is the second volume of the series “Descriptive Grammars”, published first from ILCAA, through the project LingDy3, and subsequently published commercially from Kurosio Publishers. He also published Parauk Wa Folktales in 2007 and Memories of Suganli: Oral Traditions of the Wa in Yunnan Province, China in 2009 from ILCAA.

This award aims to recognize outstanding study in the ethnological studies such as anthropology, descriptive linguistics, archeology, etc.

(Posted 19 June, 2020)