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| The Joint Research Projects, conducted by the members of the institute together with outside researchers, constitute the core of research activities at ILCAA as the International Research Center for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. The Joint Research Projects are evaluated annually at a meeting by a group of referees, which includes researchers within and outside ILCAA. Projects are evaluated in terms of their outputs, publicization of results, and significance from academic viewpoint. Several Joint Research Projects are organized by outside researchers. s We are now inviting applications for Joint Researchers for projects starting in 2010. (See the Call for Applications for Joint Researchers for the list of projects and details on how to apply.) List and Summaries of the ongoing projects in 2009 are the following. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Linguistic Diversity and Linguistic Theory: Morphological Typology and Syntatic Diversity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Nakayama, Toshihide Project term: 2005-2009 ILCAA Staff: 7 Joint Researchers: 13 AIM OF PROJECT : (1) to study the diversity of the formal unit of word both in terms of structure (internal structure) and of function (division of labor between morphology and syntax); (2) to explore the most appropriate way to position morphology in relation to syntax and also within the overall makeup of grammar. OUTPUT SO FAR : (1) a workshop on crosslinguistic issues in parts of speech distinction, organized at the meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2008.6); (2) a group of papers submitted to the journal Asian and African Languages and Linguistics 3. WORK PLANNED : Three meetings are planned this year to summarize the research activities and to work toward a general characterization of the role the ‘word’ domain within the structural and functional dynamics of language. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ethnographical Study on the Life-Worlds of Muslim Peoples and Their Transformations under Globalization | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Iizuka, Masato Project term: 2005-2009 ILCAA Staff: 7 Joint Researchers: 41 The main purpose of this joint research project is to investigate, ethnographically, the realities of the life-worlds of various Muslim peoples all over the world, and to explain, comparatively, common elements (Islamic universality) and unique elements (local particularities) of the realities. The transformations of Muslims’ daily life and their life-worlds are within the scope of our research, as the global trends, such as Globalization, Modernization, Secularization and Islamic revival cannot be overlooked. Through the 11 meetings including two international workshops during 2005 - 2008 academic years, the notion of “the Life-Worlds” was examined from various perspectives, referring to the concrete cases varying from Africa to Southeast Asian islands. As the academic year 2009 is supposed to be the final year of “the Research and Educational Project for Middle East and Islamic Studies”, the main frame of the project, the over-all out-come is expected to be made public at the international symposium planned on December in Tokyo. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marcel Mauss Reconsidered: "Societe", "Echange" and "Cooperative" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Majima, Ichiro Project term: 2006-2009 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 8 AIM OF PROJECT : Through an exhaustive reference to the works of Mauss, including a large number of comments on current political / economic affairs etc., we aim at a fresh reconsideration of “le social” from the anthropological view in the Post-Welfare State era. OUTPUT SO FAR : We prepared and published, as the preliminary results of project, the KWIC (Key-word in context) index of the main works of Mauss (http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~tjun/data/mauss/), with the original texts of “L’annee sociologique” (http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~tjun/data/socio/annee_socio.html). WORK PLANNED : We will publish “Marcel Mauss Collection” (in Japanese, 5 vols.) from 2010. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synthetic Study of Representation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Takachio, Hitoshi Project term: 2006-2009 ILCAA Staff: 3 Joint Researchers: 8 Following the former research project of 'Comparative Study on Travel and Representation, the current project aims at a synthetic study of representation and makes clear problematics on 'What is Representation to Men? ' The researches will be mainly on the following three issues: 1. Concrete Case-Studies on Representation of X / X as Representation: X = Other, Land, Place, Religion (God,gods, the dead, etc.), Nature (landscape, flora and fauna, etc.), Politics, and so on. 2. Approaches to Representation in terms of heories and History of Ideas. 3. Approaches to Representation Media in terms of Cognitive Science. All of the members have reported their analyses on the concrete case-studies. Each report will be placed in the web site of ILCAA.The reports will be put together a book. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Social Change and International Relations in Modern East Asia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Nakami, Tatsuo Project term: 2006-2010 ILCAA Staff: 3 Joint Researchers: 36 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History of Hill Peoples in the Tay Cultural Area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Daniels, Christian Project term: 2006-2010 ILCAA Staff: 3 Joint Researchers: 14 AIM OF PROJECT: The Tay Cultural Area (TCA) cuts across international boundaries. It extends from Yunnan in the north to Northern Thailand and Laos in the south, to Laichau in Vietnam in the east, and Assam in the west. Its history has been defined by Tay polities which have dominated ethnic groups living on the hilltops as well as those in the basins. In sharp contrast to anthropologists, historians have largely ignored hill peoples in the TCA because they regard them as having made no contribution to the nation building process. As a result history in the TCA has been written from the standpoint of basin-based Tay political regimes. This project aims to redress this biased view by conceptualizing the history of hill peoples in the TCA as a whole, rather than simply treating each individual ethnic group separately, as has been the case until now. OUTPUT SO FAR: This project has a program to publish Japanese translations of works written in local languages concerning the history, ethnology and languages of the TCA. Publications in 2008~2009 include; SHINTANI Tadahiko; History As Told By the Tay; the Senwi and Unpon Sibo Chronicles: KATAOKA Tatsuki; Folktales of the Lahu; Legends and Myths of Minority Hill Peoples in Burma: YAMADA Atsushi, Memories of Suganli:Oral Traditions of the Wa in Yunnan province: SHINTANI Tadahiko; The Palaung Language (1) and SHINTANI Tadahiko; The Mun Language of Funning County. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Studies on Liao, Jin and Xi-Xia : Language, History and Religion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Arakawa, Shintaro Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 20 Liao, Jin and Xi-Xia are the unique dynasties in China between the 10th and 13th c. In the recent years new materials have been discovered and aroused the scholar's interest. This project introduces recent studies in each field and publishes the collection of articles as results every year. Under this project, the following publication has been issued: New Trends in Studies on Liao, Jin and Xi-Xia(1), Edited by ARAKAWA.S, Y. TAKAKI and K. WATANABE, 2008(ILCAA, TUFS) New Trends in Studies on Liao, Jin and Xi-Xia (2, 3), Edited by ARAKAWA.S, Y. TAKAKI and K. WATANABE, 2009, 2010 (ILCAA, TUFS) http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qo-sez/index_LiaoJinXixia.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Historical Studies on Persianate Societies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Kondo, Nobuaki Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 3 Joint Researchers: 29 AIM OF PROJECT:The Persianate Societies implies the regions where Modern Persian Languages were used as written and administrative language at least a period of time between the 11th and the 19th Centuries, including Iran, India, Central Asia and Anatolia. The project examines the concept of “the Persianate Societies,” and try to show its merit and demerit in historical studies. OUTPUT SO FAR : The project published three books in 2008-09: 1. Omid Reza’i, Introduction to Shari‘a Documents from Qajar Iran. 2. Timur Beisembiev, Annotated indices to Kokand Chronicles. 3. Otamis Haji, Cingiz-Nama ed by. Takushi Kawaguchi and Hiroyuki Nagamine WORK PLANNED : We will have three meeting in this year, and discuss about the term “Persianate Societies.” At the last stage of the project a collection of articles also will be published. WEBSITE:http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/fsc/meis/jrp_PerC.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The anthropological study of ‘single’ in various societies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator:Shiino, Wakana Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 18 In this study, we observe an individual as 'single' in a society. An individual’s way of life in a modern society is diversified. One society may exert pressure on an individual’s way of life based on an ideal family image or there can be a society with a structure which does not bear on a single person. The concept of the 'single' which tends to be fixed is supposed to be re- examined through a comparative study. By now, we have examined several societies in the world with 'single' as the point of reference. These societies included those in Papua New Guinea, India, South Korea, Africa, Austria, and Japan. We now proceed to discuss more about the similarity and diversity which appear when we consider the 'single' through comparing various societies, communities or networks. We will also set the direction of the discussion about 'single', taking into consideration for locality, historical backgrounds, and political economy etc. http://single-ken.aacore.jp/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthropological Study of Things: Dynamics of Things, Bodies and Environments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Tokoro, Ikuya Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 4 Joint Researchers: 20 AIM OF PROJECT:This project aims to conduct comparative anthropological study on material cultures in various parts of the world, including Asia and Africa. In this regard, this project will inquire the relationship between things (artifacts), bodies and its environment. This project is a multi-disciplinary research project, including cultural anthropologist, archaeologist and primatologist as well. a.OUTPUT SO FAR / b.WORK PLANNED: In the fiscal year of 2007, we have organized 3 workshops in this project. In the fiscal year of 2008, 5 workshops are organized as well. In these workshops, we have discussed diverse topics and themes concerning material culture such as relationships between bodies and things in different areas of Asia and Africa, corporal technique of production of the things, relationship between environments and things, display and representation of things and so on. We have also conducted a workshop and a field trip to Okinawa for observing local production and consumption of things in the local setting. In the fiscal year of 2009, we would organize 5 workshops, aiming to conduct studies on things or material cultures in different areas and to discuss theoretical perspectives concerning the anthropological study of things. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elaboration of a generalized science of humanity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Nakatani, Hideaki Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 7 Joint Researchers: 30 The objective of the project is to examine, for a better planning of future societies, the fundamental human conditions such as : physiology of humankind; traditional mind set of civilizations; new scientific acquisitions, political, economical and social situations of all regions of the world. Under this project following activities have been carried out : 1) Publications of the Generalized Science of Humanity Series: Vol. 1, 2006; Vol. 2, 2007; Vol. 3 2008; Vol. 4, 2008. 2) International Symposia on GSH (Tokyo): I, Mar. 2005; II, Oct. 2005; III, Jan. 2007; IV, Dec. 2007; V, Jan. 2008. 3) Workshops ILCAA-MSH on GSH (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris): I, Mar. 2008 ; II, Mar. 2009. http://www.classics.jp/GSH/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Studies on the “Colonial Responsibilities” in the Interactive Historical Process of Decolonization | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Nagahara, Yoko Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 30 AIM OF PROJECT: More and more people in the Americas and Africa today are demanding reparations for the past injustice under slavery and colonialism. This project aims to understand this phenomenon as a part of historical process of decolonization. By studying different cases of legal and political confrontation around “colonial guilt” it tries to evolve a new perspective for the decolonization studies. OUTPUT SO FAR : __During 7 meetings more than ten case studies ranging from East Asia to Africa were presented. An international workshop, entitled “The ‘Guilt’ of Slavery and Colonialism: Experiences, Memory and Reparations” was held in December 2008. A book entitled “ ‘Colonial Responsibilities’: A Comparative Study of Decolonization” was published with the end result of the preceding project. WORK PLANNED:IN 2009, three meetings and an international symposium are proposed to be held. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reconsideration on the Theory of Social Space: from reflections on time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Nishii, Ryoko Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 5 Joint Researchers: 17 This project aims at investigating and developing the theory of social space which refers to the space of agents who interact each others, including human and nonhuman materials. We analyse every day practices and approach actualities in everyday lives with the concept 'social space under the condition of collapse of grand theory in the late 20th century after the theory of structuralism. This method intends to construct the social theory from investigation of experiences of the micro levels. This project is mainly composed of cultural and social anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers. Each member reported and analysed on our common concern of social space and time based on their own field data and method to promote sharing understanding and widen our limits of scope. This project fo11ows up the former joint research project of 'social space and religion' which was conducted during 2000-2004 with the additional angle of time and expects to develop our sight from three dimensions to four dimensions, that is to introduce process of events into analysis of social space. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language Contact and Genetic Inheritance: Descriptive Studies of Bantu and Neighboring Languages in the Lacustrine and South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Hieda, Osamu Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 16 The project aims at finding areal features in Bantu and the neighboring languages spoken from the great lake basin to southern Africa. This area was an important corridor from the remote past. Many people who spoke various languages had passed through this corridor. Their contacts were sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent. Their languages came to show some common features. A major question is: In what process did the languages acquire the features? Project members conduct intensive field work to collect linguistic data for comprehensive studies of the languages. Under this project, the following publications were issued: A Vocabulary of Bantu Language (published in 2007). A Grammar of a Niger-Congo Language. 2008. The project proposes to conduct three academic meetings this year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anthropological Study of Globalizations in Asia and Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Mio, Yuko Project term: 2008-2010 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 8 The project aims at exploring the less examined but different multiple aspects or dimensions of Globalization in Asia and Africa by utilizing empirical ethnographic approach. So far, members of the project reported case studies based on each of their field research in their respective research field in Asia and Africa. The project plans to discuss about ≪multi-disciplinary≫ understanding of Globalization in Asia and Africa by participation of specialists on different discipline such as anthropology, historian and area studies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Missionary Linguistics (2nd stage) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Toyoshima, Masayuki Project term: 2009-2011 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 6 AIM OF PROJECT : create a workbench for the “Missionary (Colonial) Linguistics” in the 16th ? 17th centuries, with special focus on Japan and South-East Asia. Products planned are, on-line accessible dictionaries of the vernacular languages, and the target (native) languages, linguistics overview of the grammars and vocabularies published by the Jesuit mission in Japan and in India. OUTPUT SO FAR : 1) on-line accessible database of the dictionaries of Cardoso(1592), Barbosa(1611), Calepinus(1592),Nizolius(1595),Latin-Portuguese-Japanese dictionary(1598), Japanese-Portuguese dictionary(1603), etc. http://joao-roiz.jp/LGR/ 2) allomorph filter based on the Freire’s “Grande e novissimo dicionario da lingua portuguesa” (1954). 3) academic papers in international publications. and invited speeches/lectures, as well as refereed papers published in Japan. WORK PLANNED : International conference to be held in March, 2010. WEBSITE: http://www.joao-roiz.jp/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic Study of Human Social Evolution | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Kawai, Kaori Project term: 2009-2011 ILCAA Staff: 5 Joint Researchers: 15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction of shared research resources for Korean historical linguistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Ito, Chiyuki Project term: 2009-2011 ILCAA Staff: 1 Joint Researchers: 16 AIM OF PROJECT: This project aims to construct shared research resources for Korean historical linguistics through the collaborative work of linguists who specialize in this area, and to contribute to the further development of linguistic study in general as well as Korean linguistics, by making the research resources available via www. site. WORK PLANNED: a) Regular meetings. b) Construction of research resources by collaborators and their publication/updating via the www. site. c) Examination of shared inputting/analyzing methods for morphological analysis and indexation of each lexical item. d) Construction of a thesaurus for searching Korean paper repositories. e) Collection and integration of Korean dialectal data. http://www.krling.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reconstructing grammatical phenomena from the viewpoint of Tibeto-Burman langauges 2: Characterization and Classification of Sentences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Sawada, Hideo Project term: 2009-2011 ILCAA Staff: 3 Joint Researchers: 12 The project studies structural and functional aspects shown by sentences of Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages. It is designed for members describing TB languages to share facts relevant to sentences they have uncovered, and the width and depth of perspective of observation, thereby advance descriptions by each members and enrich findings on sentences of TB languages. We plan to have three meetings this year. Members are to make a presentation on the sentences of each's own object language, especially focusing on the classification of verb sentences with respect to speech-act types, the possible types of non-verb sentence and the distribution of copula (if any). Next year we will discuss the concepts and factors crucial to the descriptions of sentences of TB languages. Contents of the meetings such as summaries of each report are publicized on our website. The publication on sentences of TB languages is also planned. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indonesian Manuscript Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Miyazaki, Koji Project term: 2009-2011 ILCAA Staff: 1 Joint Researchers: 4 AIM OF PROJECT: The aim of this project is to explore new perspectives in the studies on Indonesian cultures, societies and languages, by developing methods of using Indonesian manuscripts as the source of study. It is also planned to train young researchers in these fields. WORK PLANNED: Focus is put on Javanese manuscripts in this three years project. By thorough research on catalogues and existing inventories, the project members, in collaboration with researchers in the overseas, will contribute to constructing a database of Javanese manuscripts and corpora which will form the basis for further studies on Java. It is planned to expand the scope of the project to the manuscripts written in other Indonesian languages, after the three years activities of the project. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Local Cultures in the Malay World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Arai, Kazuhiro Project term: 2005-2009 ILCAA Staff: 3 Joint Researchers: 25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lexical structure and grammar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Kaji, Shigeki Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 4 Joint Researchers: 6 AIM OF PROJECT:The way of dictionary making changes according to the grammatical structure of the language under description. In this project we discuss the various relations which we find between grammar and lexical structure in order to have a better understanding of the working of the world’s languages. OUTPUT SO FAR:Kaji, Shigeki 2007 A Rutooro Vocabulary. Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel 2008 Degema－English Dictionary with English Index. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History of the normative glyphs of the HAN-script | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Ishizuka, Harumichi Project term: 2007-2009 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 7 AIM OF PROJECT : 1) maintain the HNG (HANZI normative glyphs) database , 2) postulate guidelines for the history of the Chinese Character (HANZI) glyphs, with special reference to the documents (stone-inscriptions, manuscripts, printings) that set norm for the subsequent eras, on the basis of the HNG database. OUTPUT SO FAR : the HNG database. http://www.joao-roiz.jp/HNG/ The database won the 1st “SHIRAKAWA academic award for the cultural studies of oriental characters” in 2006. WORK PLANNED : 1) extension and refinement of the HNG database, 2) academic introductory libretto (or www pages) on the history of the normative glyphs of the Chines character glyphs, in the 2 years to come. WEBSITE: http://www.joao-roiz.jp/HNG/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comparative study of multilingualism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinator: Sunano, Yukitoshi Project term: 2008-2010 ILCAA Staff: 2 Joint Researchers: 32 This project aims at a critical study of the notion of multilingualism as recommended by influenial international institutions like UNESCO through a comparative study of different multilingual situations in Asia, Africa and Europe. The project plans to continue the work to include: examination of different multilingual situations in Asia, Africa and Europe, theoretical study of the notion of multilingualism. http://aa.multilingualism.googlepages.com/ |