The Familial and the Supernatural: Crafting Kinship through Sorcery in Contemporary Malaysia

在第一年，Nurul有机会阅读有关婚姻和亲属关系的最新文献，这使她准备于2022年7月在马来西亚和泰国南部进行为期一个月的实地考察。在实地考察期间，她在马来西亚对一夫多妻制的妻子进行了三次访谈，并访问了泰国南部沙敦、也拉和宋卡的几个村庄，以了解那里的马来人社区。她还于2022年4月参加了德国的研讨会，随后在挪威和法国的两个国际会议上发表演讲，并于2022年6月对剑桥大学进行了短暂的研究访问。2022年5月，在京都大学东南亚研究中心（CSEAS）举行的学术讨论会上，她介绍了我正在进行的研究工作，并得到了听众的积极反馈。在这些研究之旅中，她结识了来自日本国内和国外的广泛学者，他们的领域包括人类学、性别研究和伊斯兰法律。在此基础上，她现在可以着手组织一些研讨会，并在最后一年完成她的书稿。此外，在CSEAS举办了一些研讨会，由CSEAS的平等机会委员会和Hayami组织，Nurul一直积极参与，这使她能够扩大她的学术网络。

In the first year, Nurul had the opportunity to read up on the updated literature on marriage and kinship, which prepared her to undertake a month of fieldwork in Malaysia and Southern Thailand in July 2022. During the fieldwork, she conducted 3 more interviews with polygamous wives in Malaysia, and visited several villages in Satun, Yala, and Songkhla in Southern Thailand to get acquainted with the Malay communities there.She also attended a workshop in Germany in April 2022, followed by presentations in two international conferences in Norway and France, and a brief research visit to the University of Cambridge in June 2022. She also presented the ongoing work from my research in a colloquium at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University in May 2022, which received constructive feedback from the audience.During these research trips, she was able to meet a wide range of scholars in her field, both from within Japan as well as abroad, in fields such as anthropology, gender studies, and Islamic law. Based on these she is now able to proceed to organize some seminars as well as complete her book manuscript during the final year.Also, there have been a number of seminars held at CSEAS, organized by Equal Opportunity Committee at CSEAS and by Hayami, and Nurul has been an active participant in all, which has enabled her to widen her scholarly network.