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A Social Anthropological Study of Globalisation and Egyptian Karate-ka's Practice of Nation

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K13595
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Cultural anthropology
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Ethnology

Principal Investigator

Aishima Hatsuki  国立民族学博物館, グローバル現象研究部, 准教授 (40622171)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords身体 / 社会階層 / エジプト / 教養 / 美的感覚 / 新自由主義 / 空手 / モダニティ / 美意識 / 空手道 / 都市 / ポストスポーツ / グローバル化 / 文化ナショナリズム / 都市中流層 / ポストコロニアル / スポーツ / 文化人類学 / ナショナリズム
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project approached karate as a cultural practice of the Egyptian middle classes and a prism through which to examine how national cultures are redefined and the social classes ideals are performed in the contemporary Middle East. I conducted ethnographic field research among karate practitioner communities (athletes, coaches and family) in order to understand how the urban middle classes experience globalization and deal with neoliberalism in their everyday lives.
When I wrote the project proposal, I hoped that I would be able to observe the globalization of Japanese culture in the Middle East by tracing the spread of karate. However, during the course of research, I have come to understand that Egyptians regard karate as a global sport and its Japanese or Okinawan origins did not bear much significance to them. Karate is a means to join the global flow which is a rare opportunity for those who are situated at the margins of the international political economy.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

空手はエジプトでサッカーに次いで二番目に競技人口の多いスポーツである。1980年代以降、中流層の子女の習い事として定着している。東京オリンピックで女子が組手でメダルを2つ獲得した際に、凱旋帰国したナショナルチームをピンク色の二階建てバスが空港で出迎えた。まさにナショナリズムが実践される場面であった。
本研究課題を構想したときは、空手を通じて日本文化のグローバル化について考察できることを期待していた。しかし、エジプトの空手家コミュニティにおいて、日本との繋がりは全く見いだせなかった。空手がエジプト社会に定着し、起源があいまいになったことこそが、グローバルスポーツの特徴であるという結論に至った。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2023 Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (38 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (24 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 14 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] スポーツ、伝統的武術(エジプト)2023

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Journal Title

      丸善イスラーム文化事典

      Volume: 1 Pages: 100-101

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 文化とのつきあい方2022

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Journal Title

      月刊みんぱく

      Volume: 46.11 Pages: 8-9

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Locating the Popular: Sports and Social Class Ideals in Egyptian Karate2021

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Journal Title

      国立民族学博物館調査報告 = Senri Ethnological Reports

      Volume: 152 Pages: 157-169

    • DOI

      10.15021/00009754

    • NAID

      120007030362

    • URL

      https://minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/8698

    • Year and Date
      2021-03-12
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Wiley Blckwell History of Islam2021

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima, Hayrettin Yucesoy, R. Michael Feener, Osamu Otsuka, Satoshi Ogura, Kenji Kuroda, Hatsuki Aishima, Hilary Kalmbach, Armando Salvatore
    • Journal Title

      The American Historical Review

      Volume: 121 Issue: 1 Pages: 199-213

    • DOI

      10.1093/ahr/rhab063

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Global and Everyday Life in Egyptian Karate2021

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Journal Title

      Minpaku Anthropology Newsletter

      Volume: 52 Summer Pages: 11-12

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and Classroom2021

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Journal Title

      Anthropology and Ethnography are not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future

      Volume: 1 Pages: 20-35

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The al-Ghazali Enigma and Why Sharia is Not Islamic Law By Haifaa G. Khalafallah (Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2017)2020

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Islamic Studies

      Volume: 31-1 Pages: 111-113

    • DOI

      10.1093/jis/etz040

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace. Ahmad, Irfan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 20172019

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Journal Title

      American Ethnologist

      Volume: 46-4 Issue: 4 Pages: 537-538

    • DOI

      10.1111/amet.12853

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Review of Masooda Bano and Keiko Sakurai (eds.) Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina and al-Mustafa (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP 2015).2018

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Journal Title

      Die Welt des Islams

      Volume: 58.4 Issue: 4 Pages: 510-511

    • DOI

      10.1163/15700607-00584p05

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 第3章イスラーム復興―西洋モデルに依存しないイスラーム的近代の試み2018

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Journal Title

      大学生・社会人のためのイスラーム講座

      Volume: 1 Pages: 41-54

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Consciously Unmodern: Situating the Self in Sufi Becoming of Contemporary Egypt2017

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Journal Title

      Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal

      Volume: 18-2 Issue: 2 Pages: 149-164

    • DOI

      10.1080/14755610.2017.1326691

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Review of Jacquelene G. Brinton’s Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt (University of California Press, 2016)2017

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Journal Title

      Anthropos

      Volume: 112 Pages: 300-301

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Introduction to Panel 4: Colonial Encounters and Postcolonial Present2023

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      特別研究「グローバル地域研究と地球社会の認知地図ーーわたしたちはいかに世界を共創するのか?」
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ポストスポーツとしてのエジプトの伝統空手道2021

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      日本文化人類学会第55回研究大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Roundtable "Sport, Leisure, Life-and-Death: Towards an Anthropology of Martial Arts"2021

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      American Anthropological Association 2021 Annual Meeting
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 歴史の扉ーカラテからエジプト社会を考える2021

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      朝日カルチャーセンター「中東イスラーム世界への扉」
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] カラテから考えるエジプトのスポーツと社会2021

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      みんぱく公開講演会「グローバル化する武道と中東」
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 現代エジプトにおけるムスリム知識人とメディア化するイスラーム2021

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      現代ムスリム知識人の変容と交流
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Beyond Correspondence: Doing Anthropology of Islam in the Field and Classroom2020

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      みんぱく特別研究「グローバル地域研究と地球社会の認知地図」
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 神なき時代にスーフィーになる ナセル社会主義とアブドゥルハリーム・マフムードのシャイフ探しの軌跡2020

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      慶応義塾大学言語文化研究所「イスラームセミナー」
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Branding Sufism for the Middle Class: Mass media and 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud's Sufi Da'wa in Post-Socialist Egypt2020

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      Media and "Public" Islam in Africa and Elsewhere, University of Florida, USA
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Orientalising the Orient? Searching for Karate's Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt2020

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      Arabic and Islamic Studies and Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgium
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] エジプト中流層のメディア消費と教養としてのスーフィズムの形成2019

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      日本中東学会第35回年次大会、秋田大学
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Escaping the Nafs in Socialist Egypt: 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud's Search for a Sufi Master2019

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      Centre Seminar, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 現代エジプトの社会階層とスポーツ実践ーポストスポーツとしての空手道の試論ー2019

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      第171回東北人類学談話会、東北大学大学院文学研究科文化人類学研究室
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] フェイスブック世代の若者とイスラーム――現代エジプトの都市中間層によるメディアの消費をめぐって2018

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      現代中東若手共同研究「アラブ世界における近代的メディアとイスラーム」
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 空手道にみる現代エジプトの社会階層とスポーツ実践2018

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      民博共同研究会「ネオリベラリズムのモラリティ」
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Introduction & Orientalising the Orient?: Searching for Karate’s Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt2018

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      French Orientalism and its Afterlives in Japan and the Middle East, Maison de la culture du Japon a Paris
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「1960~70年代エジプトのラジオスター」アブドゥルハリーム・マフムードのメディア戦略とダアワ2018

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      現代中東地域研究若手共同研究「アラブ世界における近代的メディアとイスラーム」第3回研究会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Competing Aesthetics of Power in Egyptian Karate Trainings2017

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt: Media, Intellectuals and Society2017

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      The Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Globalisation from its Margins: Searching for Karate’s Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt2017

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series, St Antony’s College, Oxford
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Orientalising the Orient?: Searching for Karate’s Budo Roots in Contemporary Egypt2017

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Organizer
      New Research on Japanese Martial Arts: From Inside Japan and Out, the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 現代エジプトのスーフィズムにおける自己主体性とモダニティの位相2017

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      民博共同研究会「個―世界論――中東から広がる移動と遭遇のダイナミズム」
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 現代エジプトのスーフィズムにおける自己主体性とモダニティ2017

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      第281回民博研究懇談会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] エジプトでイスラーム思想のテクストを読む2017

    • Author(s)
      相島葉月
    • Organizer
      第406回みんぱくゼミナール
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 中東イスラーム世界への30の扉(グローバルスポーツとしての武道ーカラテからエジプト社会を考える)2021

    • Author(s)
      西尾哲夫、東長靖(相島葉月)
    • Total Pages
      392
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房
    • ISBN
      9784623091782
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Reading Ali the Goat and Ibrahim in Arabic, English and Japanese (Resources in Modern Middle East Studies 2)2019

    • Author(s)
      Hatsuki Aishima
    • Total Pages
      190
    • Publisher
      Center for Modern Middle East Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology
    • ISBN
      9784879747464
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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