| Project/Area Number |
01041111
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | National Museum of Ethnololgy |
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Principal Investigator |
FUJII Tomoaki Professor and Director of the 5th Research Department, National Museum of Ethnology, 第5研究部, 研究部長教授 (70044740)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
高 立士 雲南民族学院, 教授
梁 友壽 広西壮族自治民族研究所, 副所長
BABA Yuji Student abroad delegated to Thailand by the Ministry of Education, JAPAN, チェンマイ大学, 文部省派遣留学生
TSUKADA Shigeyuki Research Staff, National Museum of Ethnology, 第3研究部, 助手 (00207333)
SUZUKI Michiko Professor, Chukyo University, 社会学部, 教授 (80154590)
HIGUCHI Akira Associate Professor, Saitama University, 教育学部, 助教授 (60015287)
LISHI Gao Professor, Yunnan Institute of Nationalities
YOUSYOU Liang Director, Nationalities Research Institute of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
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| Project Period (FY) |
1989 – 1990
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1990)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥11,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥9,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000)
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| Keywords | Yunnan / Kwangsi / Tibet-Burman / Cultural Identity / Folk belief / Ethnomusic / Anthroporogy of Music / East Asian Evergreen Forest Culture. |
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| Research Abstract |
This project group has researched from the crosscultural point of into folk music and music culture in the Great Himalayan countries, from Pakistan, northern India and Nepal to Bhutan and China, for these ten years delegated by the Japanese Ministry of education. The object is to grasp the cultural identity and the reality of acculturation of the people concerned by means of collecting data on folk tradition, music and lore on the basis of the theory of anthropology of music.
RESULT : In 1989, the field research was prosecuted chiefly in the area of Yunnan and Kwangsi. Those Nationalities as Thai, Yi, Pai, and Miao in the formers Tung, Yao and Chuang in the latter were focused on. Their ceremonial music and festive music, vocal and instrumental, as well as its related folklore, were studied with the cooperative help of Chinese staffs. According to the major of the project members, the data obtained will be analyzed from such a standpoint as of ethnomusicology, comparative literature, folk performance, history and folk belief.
DISCUSSION : The areas mentioned above are on the belt of the East Asian Evergreen Forest Culture, which stretches from the southern foot of Himalayas to the southern part of China. Its particular culture has been studied by the project as one of the main purposes. Then the project work is to be carried in the northern part of Thailand in 1991.
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