12Joint Research ProjectsReconsideration on the Theory of Social Space: From Reections on Time(Coordinator: Nishii, Ryoko)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 nonhumanmaterials. 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 eld data and method to promote sharing understanding and widen our limits of scope.This project follows up the former joint research project of ‘social space and religion’ which was conducted during 2000-2004 with the additional angle of time andexpects 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)The project aims at nding 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 eld work to collect linguistic data for comprehensive studies of the languages.Under this project, the following publications were issued: Shigeki, Kaji. A Rutooro Vocabulary. (2007) Motinges, André Mangulu. Aspects du Bongili de la Sangha-Likouala. (2008)The project proposes to conduct three academic meetings this year.Anthropological Study of Globalizations in Asia and Africa(Coordinator: Mio, Yuko) 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 eld research in their respective research eld in Asia and Africa.The project plans to discuss «multi-disciplinary» understanding of Globalization in Asia and Africa by participation of specialists on different disciplines such as anthropology, history and area studies.Missionary Linguistics (2nd stage)(Coordinator: Toyoshima, Masayuki) 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 lter based on the Freire’s “Grande e novissimo dicionário da língua 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. http://www.joao-roiz.jp/
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