| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,290,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study I examined changing attitude for alternative life-course choices, particularly in terms of circumcision, marriage and childbearing of African pastoral women. When people cope with new situation brought by life course changes, they are not facing squarely to the conventional rules, but they create new ways of utilizing already existing system or add meanings to it in order to achieve traditionally “proper” status. Samburu people added new meanings to the already existing age category “surumelei(circumcised but unmarried) ” and utilize it to become free from traditional rigid life course. In conventional Samburu values being a surmeleii is neither “right” nor “beautiful,”but recently for many Samburu women being surumelehas become a positive option, and they use it to be free from conventional life course. They can take choice of childbearing instead of abortion, they can chose their partner by themselves or they can remain single all their lives.
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