8This research project aims at investigating the historical process of the creation of ethnicidentities and the reformation of societies and cultures in Modern Central Asia by throwing light onthe real conditions of traditional societies and cultures and aspects of modernization and the politicalsituations in each period.AFLANG : African Linguistic Perspective(Coordinator: Matsushita Shuji)AFLANG is a working group of students and researchers who have keen interest in Africanlanguages. It is well known that African languages show the most varied differentiation and the mostcomplicated geographical distribution in this world. AFLANG looks into this linguistic chaos andtries to find some reasonable order underlying it. The interesting but somehow neglected fields suchas surrogate languages, function of music and wordplays are within AFLANG’s favourite domain.Pratis.t.ha--Comparative Studies on Indian Temple Rituals(Coordinator: Takashima Jun)Pratis..tha-refers to a cluster of ritual procedures by which an image or a building is “established”as fit for purposes of effective worship -a material object becomes an abode (or incarnation) of God.Though this ritual complex does not occur so often in actual practice, it occupies the largest part ofSacred Scriptures on ritual and also contains almost all elements of popularly practiced temple rituals.As such, it reflects the religious mentality of the Indian people with their diverse and dynamicallychanging religious traditions.Through the analysis of Pratis.t.ha-, this project aims to elucidate the developments in andinterrelationships between Indian religions, from the late Vedic period to the late Classical period(when Hinduism as we know it today took its established form -about 13/14th century). Specialistsof different sects (Buddhism, Puranic Hinduism, S´aivism, Vais.n.avism and Architectural tradition) willparticipate, trying to bring about a synthesis of Indian religions through comparative studies.Research on Coded Character-sets and Collating Sequences in Multi-lingual Environments(Coordinator: Toyoshima Masayuki)Computing in multi-lingual environment over the Internet calls for some basic character/stringfundamentals such as : A. Unambiguous employment of characters through designation of codedcharacter-sets (e.g. unification), B. Methods abstract enough to handle string manipulation (e.g. textediting), C. Rules abstract enough to handle string collation (collating sequences) (e.g. sorting), and D.Culturally correct methods to print/display strings (e.g. page composition). Currently, both of the pro-and anti- Unicode or ISO/IEC 10646-X wings have yet to come to propose neither B nor C details.This project surveys B and C on the basis of stable A, and possibly D, with foci on Asian languages.
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