EXTERNAL JOINT RESEARCH PROJECTS In addition to joint research projects above, the Institute also has the following projects These projects are coordinated by scholars from other institutions with the active participation of the Institute.Research on Linguistic and Historical Materials of Formosan Indigenous Peoples in ASAI Collection(Coordinator: TSUCHIDA Shigeru,Former Professor of Tokyo University) In the ASAI collection of this Institute are kept many field notes, manuscripts, slip cards, photographic negative plates, playing records, maps, and other documents and materials. The most important and valuable ones are those of the plain native peoples (so-called Pingpu-tzu), who have lost their own languages and cultures by now, but which were still actively spoken or remembered by older people in those days of ASAI Erin and OGAWA Naoyoshi, the late professors of Taihoku Imperial University. And yet, most of these valuable data have not been published and thus are unavailable to outside researchers. Besides, more than seventy to one hundred years have passed since these materials were made, and some of them started to crumble into dust. There are two main goals for this research project. One is to work on these Formosan materials of professors OGAWA and ASAI, put them into good order to make a list, and publish more important ones in order to make them available to any researchers. Another goal is to digitize the most important materials on CD or DVD, and to make them public in the home page of this institute, so that any interested researchers may have access to the materials and can download needed data."Classical" Narrative Texts and Historical Consciousness in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia (Coordinator: AOYAMA Toru, Professor of Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands) Through interdisciplinary collaboration of historians, anthropologists, and scholars of literature and religious studies, this project aims at the reexamination of "classical" narrative texts such as epics, dramatic verses, chronicles, and genealogical accounts, richly produced in pre-modern Southeast Asian societies, and seeks for new perspectives and possibilities in the ways of "reading" these texts. Drawing on the recent theoretical debates which problematized the assumption that historians could and should extract the "facts" from these pre-modern texts to construct modern, linear narratives of the past that suits our historical consciousness privileging a "national" history, while dismissing the rest as erring or a myth, this project will focus on the reappraisal of these pre-modern texts. Closer attention will be paid to the textual aspects of the text, i.e. its style, rhetorical devices, and so on, and an interpretive, semiotic reading will be attempted. While each project member will take up a particular narrative text for a case study, broader methodological arguments posed in different disciplines will be shared by the members; and the inventory of the classical narrative texts across the societies in Southeast Asia will be compiled for the purpose of comparison. By doing so, we hope to propose a new approach to pre-modern Southeast Asian history which would lead to deeper insights into the historical sensibilities or consciousness in various Southeast Asian societies in the pre-modern period.12
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