New Development in Educational Anthropology to Connect Traditional Cultures to Education

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15H06716
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Education
Research Institution	Nagoya Women's University
Principal Investigator	YASUI Takeshi 名古屋女子大学, 家政学部, 講師 (00758196)
Project Period (FY)	2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Keywords	贈与論 / マルセル・モース / educational anthropology / 教育人類学 / 教育人間学 / 贈与交換 / 隠喩論 / 伝統文化 / Metaphor and Thought
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The purpose of this research project is connecting two fields of educational anthropology: philosophical and ethnological, and developing new educational anthropology using traditional cultures as a key concept. In the process, it was found that educational anthropology is not dichotomized, and it is possible to approach from the four fields at least: biological, philosophical, cultural, and historical. From this point of view, I analyzed research trends of educational anthropology in Japan, and reconsidered Marcel Mauss's concept of “gift exchange.”According to Mauss's intention, educational anthropology enables a new idea to connect traditional cultures and education.