OGATA, Shirabe
- Positions, degrees
- Assistant Professor
- Research Keywords
- Anthropology of Arts, Nigerian area studies
- ogatas[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp
芸術を成す諸要素やライフストーリーを通して，人が生きることについて記しています
Considering elements that consist of arts such as materials, sensuosity, institutions, and life stories which consist of things and events like money, livelihood, relationships, and communities, I have been documenting the lives of people in Nigeria in a form of ethnography.
To reveal what arts are in Nigeria, it is significant to focus on various elements like mutual aids and beliefs of local communities, and international art market and art history that emanated from Western modernity. Life stories as individual narratives also suggest connections of those various elements.
Materials, things, and practices that are called “arts” do not indicate only genre, category, works of art, and artistic activities but they also show us connections with things and events that pass across existing frames of art. This unexpected expansion is what makes me excited and encourages further research.