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
Fiscal Year 2022
- 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
- Meeting and presentation on April 9, 2022, and March 27, 2003
- Field research in Tanzania (collaboration with the National Museum of Tanzania)
- 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
- Museum collection research at NME in Osaka in the presence of Buganda Kingdom's representative
- 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
- Because of the Covid-19 pandemic and incapability to make field researches, each members prepared for future trips by communicating collaborators in Africa
- Meetings and presentations on July 8 and August 18, 2020
- 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)
- 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
- Meeting on March 22, 2021
- Budget and time allocated to transcription of interviews and edition of moving images
- 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
- Field research in Kenya (collaboration with National Museums of Kenya)
- Field research in Tanzania, Uganda, and Comoros
- Field research in South Africa (collaboration with the University of Cape Town)
- Meetings and presentations on May 26, 2019; and March 20, 2020