18Joint Research ProjectsHistory/Area Studies[Social Change and International Relations in Modern East Asia]Project term: April, 2006 – March, 2011Coordinator: NAKAMI, TatsuoDuring the last ten years access to archival sources relating to modern East Asia has become easier, and now historians face the problem of how to systematically collect and digest this huge body of materials. This project focuses on the utilization of archival sources for historical analyses in studies relating to social change and international relations in East Asia between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Symposia with guest speakers are held twice a year and monographs and collections of source materials are being published.[History of Hill Peoples in the Tay Cultural Area]Project term: April, 2006 – March, 2011Coordinator: DANIELS, ChristianThe 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 dened 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.[Indonesian Manuscript Project]Project term: April, 2009 - March, 2012Coordinator: MIYAZAKI, KojiThe 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 elds.Focus is put on Javanese manuscripts in this three-year project. Thorough research on catalogues and existing inventories, the project members, in collaboration with researchers 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[Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives]Project term: April, 2010 – March, 2013Coordinator: ISHIKAWA, HirokiWith the economic depression of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming an international crisis, the need for greater expertise in agriculture, which is a key industry in most of the region, becomes urgent. In Japan, a great deal of effort has been made by researchers of agriculture, anthropology, and agricultural economics to study the agriculture of Sub-Saharan Africa, and these researchers have obtained good results in the last few decades. In this project, researchers of the disciplines and historians will jointly examine the relation between agriculture and culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from historical perspectives. The goal of this project is to explore a new eld of study on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by emphasizing subjects related to staple food crops. There remain numerous unsettled historical questions about these crops even though they have had an important role socially and culturally in Sub-Saharan African societies.[Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies]Project term: April, 2010 – March, 2013Coordinator: KUROKI, HidemitsuBy analyzing human mobility and the spatial expansion of major Middle Eastern cities (Beirut, Aleppo, Istanbul, and Tehran), this project will elucidate the process of development of multi-ethnic relations and their inuence on political and social movements in the modern period. The results of studying the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in the Middle East will be of value to
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