川田順造さん死去、９０歳　文化人類学者、文化勲章受章

　文化人類学者で文化勲章受章者の川田順造（かわだ・じゅんぞう）さんが２０日、誤嚥（ごえん）性肺炎のため死去した。９０歳だった。葬儀は近親者で営む。喪主は妻待子（まちこ）さん。
　１９３４年、東京都生まれ。東京大卒。東京外国語大や広島市立大、神奈川大で教授を歴任した。アフリカで精力的にフィールドワークを行い、現地の無文字社会の研究などで注目された。著書に「曠野（こうや）から」（日本エッセイストクラブ賞）や「無文字社会の歴史」、「聲（こえ）」（藤村記念歴程賞）、「口頭伝承論」（毎日出版文化賞）、訳書にクロード・レヴィストロース著「悲しき熱帯」など。
　２００１年に紫綬褒章、０９年に文化功労者。２１年に文化勲章を受けた。（2024/12/24-12:10）

Japanese cultural anthropologist Junzo Kawada, a recipient of the Order of Culture, died of aspiration pneumonia on Friday. He was 90.
   Born in 1934 in Tokyo, Kawada graduated from the University of Tokyo. He served as professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Hiroshima City University and Kanagawa University.
   Kawada, who conducted fieldwork in Africa, gained attention for his researches, including his study on a nonliterate society there.
   Among his books are "Koya kara" (From the field), which received the prestigious Nihon Essayist Club award, "Mumoji Shakai no Rekishi" (History of a nonliterate society), "Koe" (Voice), which won a prize in memory of novelist and poet Toson Shimazaki, and "Koto Densho Ron" (Theory on oral tradition), which was given the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award.
   Kawada translated books including "Tristes Tropiques," by anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss.