OverviewJoint ResearchResearch ResourcesTraining and Capacity Building17Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)Anthropology of Trans-area Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture, Ethnicity and Identity within Cross-marriage/Cross-divorce NetworkProject term: April, 2010 – March, 2013Coordinator: ISHII, Kayoko (Nagoya University of Commerce & Business)This research project aims to analyze trans-border marriage migration networks (including divorce migration) within Asian countries, particularly the Asia Pacific area. Hitherto, many anthropological scholars have discussed trans-border migration in the Asia Pacic area, but very few have focused on marriage migration and its network or mechanisms. Even fewer studies have discussed migration by way of divorce. This research group aims to contribute further to migration studies by analyzing 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 field 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 “field 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.Studies on ‘Chinese’ as Multiple Imaginations and Dynamic RealitiesProject term: April, 2011 – March, 2014Coordinator: TSUDA, KojiFocusing mainly on East and Southeast Asia, this study investigates from various perspectives how a certain group of people identify themselves as ‘ethnic Chinese’ and how they imagine ‘their world’ and try to establish relationships within it. Needless to say, the idea of ‘being Chinese’ depends on historic contexts in each area of East and Southeast Asia. Also, the circumstances regarding the ‘ethnic Chinese’ are drastically changing with the political changes in each country, especially in Southeast Asia, with the increasing importance of China in the geopolitical power balance, and with the accelerated progression of globalization. Given these situations, this study proposes to examine specific cases from various perspectives to reveal 1) how people with different origins or cultural backgrounds (re)produce ‘memory’ currently, 2) what kind of ‘memory’ they (re)produce, 3) how they imagine and realize the notion of ‘us’ and 4) in what ways their act is recognized as ‘Chinese’ by themselves or other people. Through this study, we discuss the benefits and limitations of simply connecting certain social phenomena with the idea of ‘Chineseness’ in academia.
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