Joint ResearchResearch Resources17OverviewTraining and Capacity Buildinganalyzing network building and mechanisms of marriage/divorce migrations.Small-scale workshops based on this research group’s members shall be held three times every year. Research outputs from each member shall be presented and discussed at the workshops. An international symposium based on the three-year project is expected to be held during the last/third year. The selected symposium outputs are expected to be edited and published as an academic book. Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach for Developing and Harmonizing Field Methods in Anthropology and Development StudiesProject term: April, 2010 – March, 2013Coordinator: MASUDA, Ken (Nagasaki University)1. To place the anthropological eld methods, like participant observation and qualitative interviews, in the context of social investigation in a broad sense.2. To explore a combination of different methods including qualitative research and quantitative investigations such as epidemiology, statistics, GIS.3. To consider the possibility of technical fusion through examination of the outcome of the Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) in Asia and Africa.4. To nd new ways of applying these methods to actual development subjects.Each development program requires “eld work” to conrm facts and identify problems to be solved. However, it is thought that the methods of investigation should be quick and prompt as in the Rapid Ethnographic Method (Rapid Appraisal). Members of this project are interested in inventing new methods that pay attention to “noise”, which is likely to be trimmed by such a prompt and “linear” investigation; members are also interested in combining such methods with anthropological “spiral” movement of thinking. This approach will make social development eldwork more fruitful in the light of increasing demands for qualitative research methods among development practitioners.History/Area StudiesIndonesian Manuscript ProjectProject 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 PerspectivesProject 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.Joint Research Projects
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