OverviewJoint ResearchResearch ResourcesTraining and Capacity Building19Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)includes examining how changes in the Tibetan, Mongol, and Chinese worlds influenced 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.How to Write African History — New Perspectives and MethodsProject term: April, 2011 – March, 2014Coordinator: NAGAHARA, YokoThere is a widespread misunderstanding among Africanists that the principal discipline for reconstructing and representing African history is anthropology because African societies are non-literate and oral sources should be used instead of searching for non-existent written records. This kind of understanding/misunderstanding is often related to the division of the African continent into Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. This division is combined with another division of the African Continent into the Christian/heathen part and the Islamic part, although these have different implications. We can further point out that the distinction between Islamic and non-Islamic parts have been disproportionately emphasized in contemporary world politics since 9/11. The present research project rst examines the problems around the regional division and considers the possibility and impossibility of understanding and representing the Continent as a whole, without necessarily being committed to the Pan-African idea. The problem of regional division is at the same time related to that of periodization. One should be careful in applying the common division of pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial eras. We should pay more attention to the historical phenomena which can be found through two or three of these eras. In questioning the division of time and space in African history, we attach importance to Africa’s connection with the outside world. It has been reflected only fragmentarily in the traditional African historiography with a few exceptions. Cooperation with the researchers of the history of the Middle East and the Indian Ocean seems essential in this regard.How to deal with the historical sources is essential in this research. We must make good use of written records in the parts of Africa where the Islam is dominant, but other records such as those in Ethiopia, for instance, are also examined. Examining the possibility of colonial records and missionary records from a new perspective is also a part of our task. Relationship between these written sources and oral sources will be a focal point of this research.Throughout the research project the viewpoint of gender will be given great importance.It will help us to nd new sources, both written and oral, and to reconsider the dominant division of time and space in African history.Human 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 influence 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 fields (history, geography, anthropology, political science, urbanism, etc.) from Japan and abroad.Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast AsiaProject term: April, 2011 – March, 2014Coordinator: TOKORO, Ikuya This project examines the inherent nature of Islam in Southeast Asia, which is becoming more socially inuential in local contexts as well as examining the effect of the trans-national Islamic revival and other related trends in local culture and society by utilizing multiple fields/research methods (history, anthropology, political science, international relations, jurisprudence, and religious studies), by including specialists.
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