20What 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.Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on IslamProject term: April, 2013 – March, 2016Coordinator: FUKUSHIMA, YasuhiroThis project intends to clarify the contemporary meaning and significance of economic activities by Shari’ah compliant industries and Muslims’ economic behaviors such as production, distribution, and consumption of products and services provided by these industries, through multidisciplinary research and analysis by the researchers who study Islamic countries.This project deals with 1) macro-level economic activities based on Islam, that is, Shari’ah compliant industries like Islamic nance, Halal food and cosmetics industry, fashion industry (abaya, hijab, jilbab, tudung, etc), pilgrimage (hajj, umrah, ziyarah) and tourism (Muslim-friendly hotel), and 2) micro-level economic behaviors based on Islam, that is, Muslims’ production, distribution, and consumption affected by Shari’ah, especially five pillars and six articles of faith. The study region of this project includes to not only Middle East, North Africa, South, Southeast and Central Asia, but also Europe, North and South America. The joint research of researchers in this project, whose academic backgrounds are cultural anthropology, area studies, and economics, intends to investigate economic activities and behaviors based on Islam in / around Muslim world.Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives (2)Project term: April, 2013 – March, 2016Coordinator: 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 they have obtained good results in the last few decades. In this project, researchers of the above-mentioned disciplines and historians will jointly examine the relation between agriculture and culture in Sub-Saharan Joint Research Projects
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