18Joint Research ProjectsHuman Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban SocietiesProject 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 the civilizational strategy of Muslim and non-Muslim coexistence in global society, and also to multi-ethnic studies in general. Using the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES) in Beirut as the study base, this project will bring together researchers from multi-disciplinary elds (history, geography, anthropology, political science, urbanism, etc.) from Japan and abroad.What It Means to Write on Wood: A New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet DocumentsProject term: April, 2011 – March, 2014Coordinator: SUEYASU/HAFNER, Arnd HelmutThe aim of the project is to build up a new comprehensive methodology of research on ancient Chinese wood and bamboo slips and tablets.Research on ancient Chinese wood and bamboo slips and tablets has had a long and fruitful academic tradition in Japan. Notwithstanding a high awareness of this invaluable heritage, the members of this project do not deny that this tradition, which mainly has been based on materials from military facilities of the north-western frontier region and characterized by an inclination to an institutional history approach, is increasingly outstripped by the ceaseless discovery and the unprecedented variety of both excavating sites and excavated material. The huge wave of newly excavated material has resulted in a boom in research on ‘unearthed material’, of which wood and bamboo slips and tablets undeniably compose an important part. Still, this new research on wood and bamboo slips and tablets generally focuses on textual material corresponding to known classical literature. Unearthed texts are taken as another version of their paper-counterparts and, too often, wood and bamboo slips and tablets are mistaken as mere substitutions for paper as writing material. As a result, most parts of social information that has been stored in form of shape or location of the slips and tablets have been neglected. This project attempts to overcome the limitations of the Japanese traditional institutional history approach and, at the same time, to avoid diminishing the research on unearthed material to a mere philology of unearthed ancient texts.The Formation of Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Other AreasProject term: April, 2011 – March, 2014Coordinator: DANIELS, ChristianPast research on the Tay Cultural Area has emphasized the inuence of the surrounding pre-modern and modern states of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam. With respect to China, research has mainly concentrated on the relationship of the TCA with Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. Researchers have tended to examine the ethnic groups, cultures, and languages within the framework of continental Southeast Asia. The TCA connects with the Chinese, Tibetan, and Mongol worlds to the north, and with the maritime world of the Bay of Bengal in the south.This project will analyse the history, cultures, and languages of the TCA from the macro-perspective of a north-south axis. The principle purpose is to clarify how the history, cultures, and languages of the TCA changed with contact and interaction between ethnic groups and political regimes located both north and south. This principle purpose includes examining how changes in the Tibetan, Mongol, and Chinese worlds inuenced the Tay Cultural Area. By taking the TCA as a case study, the project will contribute to the elucidation of the formation process of cultural areas in East and Southeast Asia.
元のページ ../index.html#20