The Familial and the Supernatural: Crafting Kinship through Sorcery in Contemporary Malaysia
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22KF0186
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| Project/Area Number (Other) |
22F20301 (2022)
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund (2023)
Single-year Grants (2022) |
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| Section | 外国 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 04030:Cultural anthropology and folklore-related
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
速水 洋子 京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 教授 (60283660)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MOHD.RAZIF NURUL HUDA BINTI 京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-03-08 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
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| Keywords | kinship / marriage / sorcery / polygyny / Malaysia / Islam / Malay adat |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research explores how Malays use love magic and sorcery to monopolize love, affection and material resources in polygamous families in contemporary Malaysia, drawing on data gathered from ethnographic research: interviews with polygamous wives and long sojourn with a family in Negeri Sembilan.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the first year, Nurul had the opportunity to read up on the updated literature on marriage and kinship, which prepared her to undertake a month of fieldwork in Malaysia and Southern Thailand in July 2022. During the fieldwork, she conducted 3 more interviews with polygamous wives in Malaysia, and visited several villages in Satun, Yala, and Songkhla in Southern Thailand to get acquainted with the Malay communities there.
She also attended a workshop in Germany in April 2022, followed by presentations in two international conferences in Norway and France, and a brief research visit to the University of Cambridge in June 2022. She also presented the ongoing work from my research in a colloquium at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) Kyoto University in May 2022, which received constructive feedback from the audience.
During these research trips, she was able to meet a wide range of scholars in her field, both from within Japan as well as abroad, in fields such as anthropology, gender studies, and Islamic law. Based on these she is now able to proceed to organize some seminars as well as complete her book manuscript during the final year.
Also, there have been a number of seminars held at CSEAS, organized by Equal Opportunity Committee at CSEAS and by Hayami, and Nurul has been an active participant in all, which has enabled her to widen her scholarly network.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Nurul's research project is progressing better than planned because she has been able to complete a period of fieldwork in Malaysia and Southern Thailand and productive conference trips to Europe and the USA in her first year. These have been excellent opportunities for gathering new data from the field, building new networks within Japan and abroad, and presenting her research to a wider audience.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the second year, Nurul is now prepared to write up her research as a journal article, and to focus on a series of events we are together organizing in July 2023 in conjunction with the invitation of Professor Patricia Sloane-White from the USA to come to Kyoto through some funding Nurul has been awarded from the Kyoto University Research Coordination Alliance. This includes two gender studies seminars on “Gender Issues in Academia” and “Special Seminar: Frontier of Gender Studies in Asia”; a Masterclass with graduate students working on Southeast Asia at Kyoto University; and a workshop on marriage, which will include the participation of some anthropologists in Japan.
In May, Nurul will present at a conference with Korean scholars to be organized by Hayami at CSEAS, and in October, she will also be attending a workshop in Rabat, Morocco, to work on a special issue of a journal on Islamic law.
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Research Products
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