Core Research Programs12Core Research Programs represent the current axes of Joint-Research in ILCAA.http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim WorldLeader: KUROKI, HidemitsuThis project explores the meaning and reality of “plurality” in the societies of the Middle East and the Muslim world by focusing on the historical development of human mobility and the contemporary dynamism of Muslim-Non-Muslim relations. Extending the scope of research from the Middle East to West Africa and South East Asia, we study the following subjects: historical development of the pluralistic composition of societies; networking and moral-constructing functions of Islam; social impact of migration and diaspora; identity strategy and political thoughts and actions. An axis of this program is the international joint research project “Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies’’, which will be conducted at the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES) in Beirut, Lebanon. Various types of seminars, workshops, and educational programs for post-doc researchers, Ph. D. candidates, and MA students will be held at ILCAA, JaCMES, and Kota Kinabalu Liaison Ofce. Another objective of our program is to digitalize historical sources such as ancient maps, travelogues, pictures, and periodicals.The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro PerspectivesLeader: NISHII, Ryoko Most of eld researches in cultural/social anthropology until 1970’s were carried out in relatively small and isolated communities. In recent years, however, anthropological themes on macro perspective vary from nation states and “the modern world system” to globalism/transnationalism. On the other hand, subjects on micro perspective such as habitus, affordances, tacit knowledge, intercorporality and so on which are focused upon an individual’s body are more and more prevalent. Under these theoretical backgrounds, we think that anthropologists must attempt to construct a new anthropological perspective which will be able to encompass the profound dichotomy itself between individual and society, structure and agency. Therefore the main subject of our anthropological core program aims to graft and integrate the macro perspective theory and the micro perspective theory, or to explorate the linkage of micro-macro perspectives.Linguistic Dynamics Science ResearchLeader: NAKAYAMA, ToshihideThe goal of this program is to advance research on the nature of structural diversity among human languages and on the complex dynamics that shape the linguistic structure. Diversity and dynamics are aspects that have been significantly underestimated, or ignored, in mainstream theoretical linguistic studies. Traditionally, languages have been assumed to share a large part of the basic structure as Universal Grammar. However, a gradually increasing number of descriptive grammars on under-documented languages suggest that structural variation among human language is much deeper and more complex than we ever expected. Language as a system has generally been considered to be autonomous. That is, the properties of the linguistic system are independent of external functional forces, including socio-cultural, historical, and pragmatic forces. Such a view has begun to be questioned recently in the research on language change and on use of grammar within discourse. If we take the results of descriptive and usage-based research seriously, we need to reevaluate and reformulate the traditional theoretical framework. This project aspires to build a new, realistic theoretical framework for capturing the nature of human language. This program is run in coordination with the Linguistic Dynamics Science Project 2 (LingDy2).
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