JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
JP19H01400 FY 2019-2021

Anthropological Study of Cultural Heritage:
Its "Social Behavior" Observed in East African Cases

Anthropological Study of Cultural Heritage: Its Social Behavior Observed in East African Cases

Fiscal Year 2022
  1. Activities continued though the project period was over in March 2022, because a part of the budget was unusually transferred to the following fiscal year owing to the pandemic
  2. Meeting and presentation on April 9, 2022, and March 27, 2003
  3. Field research in Tanzania (collaboration with the National Museum of Tanzania)
  4. Ethnographic film “Sorombe” screened at the annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology on June 5, and at the International Ethnological Film Festival in Kratovo, Macedonia, on October 9
  5. Museum collection research at NME in Osaka in the presence of Buganda Kingdom's representative
  6. Research and survey launched on African descents living in Japan, as well as support of their story telling with use of museum materials
Fiscal Years 2020-2021
  1. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic and incapability to make field researches, each members prepared for future trips by communicating collaborators in Africa
  2. Meetings and presentations on July 8 and August 18, 2020
  3. Sessions curated at the biennial meeting of Association of Critical Heritage Studies on August 26, 2020 (see pp. 9-10 of the program for the time table, and pp. 293-299 for the abstracts; the product already issued)
  4. Participation as supporters to the five serial academic webinars “Cultural Transmission against Collective Amnesia: Bodies and Things in Heritage Practices” organized by the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, on February 13 through March 13, 2021
  5. Meeting on March 22, 2021
  6. Budget and time allocated to transcription of interviews and edition of moving images
  7. Ethnographic filn “Sorombe: ceremony for spirits in South-west Madagascar” submitted for nomination of Tokyo Documentary Film Festival and screened in Tokyo on December16, 2021; and in Osaka on March 10, 2022
Fiscal Year 2019
  1. Field research in Kenya (collaboration with National Museums of Kenya)
  2. Field research in Tanzania, Uganda, and Comoros
  3. Field research in South Africa (collaboration with the University of Cape Town)
  4. Meetings and presentations on May 26, 2019; and March 20, 2020