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1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Comparative Study of Euro-American Ainu Collections

Research Project

Project/Area Number 06041047
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
SectionField Research
Research InstitutionNagoya Uiversity

Principal Investigator

KOTANI Yoshinobu  Nagoya Univeristy Professor, 大学院・人間情報学研究科, 教授 (40111091)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) FITZHUGH W.W  米国立自然史博物館, 極北研究センター, 所長
NIIMI Michiko  Nagoya University, 大学院・人間情報学研究科, 助手 (10262065)
DERIHA Koji  Historical Museum of Hokkaido, 学芸部, 学芸員 (40142088)
KIRIKAE Hideo  Hokkai Gakuen University, 教養部, 助教授 (20205040)
NISHIMOTO Toyohiro  National Museum of Japanese History, 考古研究部, 助教授 (70145580)
SASAKI Toshikazu  Tokyo National Museum, 資料部・第二研究室, 室長 (80132702)
FTIZHUGH William W  Arctic Stucies Center, Smithsonian Institution
Project Period (FY) 1994 – 1996
KeywordsAinu Culture / Ainu Material Culture / North Pacific Area / Northern Culture / Material Culture / Northern Ethnology / Ainu Collections / Museum Collecions
Research Abstract

Frederick Starr's Ainu collections and related documents, which are now stored at the Brooklyn Museum, Logan museum of anthropology (Beloit College), State Historica Society of wisconson, University of Chicago Library, and University of Oregon (Library, Art Museum and State Museum of Natural History on its campus), are one of the largest and most important in the world. We regard it as a matter of urgency to publish all sorts of information his Ainu collections in the very near future.
Comparisons of Euro-American Ainu collections tell us interesting historical episodes on why European scholars became interested in Ainu studies as well as collections of Ainu specimens. After Franz von Siebold's monumental works, the Ainu were regarded as a possible case of "Noble Savages, " "Lost Europeans" or "Vanishing Hunter-gatherers" and this intelectual trend spurred scholars to visit the Ainu and to secure their material culture. Around the mid-19th century, the so-called "Ainu=Caucasoid" hypothe … More sis gave more influences to Euro-American scholars, who were basically trained in natural history, and they continued to build Ainu collections. This trend came to an end with the World War I (1914-18). It is a regretful fact that Japanese scholars started Ainu researches and nuseum collections only after the WWI,aftre Ainu traditional village life was changed on a large scale.
Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, has begun preparations for an Ainu special exhibit on the basis of our research results. We think it one of the best ways to make research results available both to concerned north americans and Japanese. finally, Euro-American scholars, who are interested in Northern Cultures, highly regard our current research projectas the first trial to accumulate all the information on museum collections of one particular ethnic group, and we are confident our project would be a model for them to proceed the Jesup II project, which will be launched at the American Museum of Natural History. Less

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All Publications (16 results)

  • [Publications] 小谷凱宣: "アイヌ研究の問題点と研究の緊急性" 民族学研究. 61. 245-262 (1996)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 佐々木利和: "松代文庫本沿海異聞について" 松代. 9. 1-9 (1996)

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  • [Publications] 西本 豊弘: "考古学から見たアイヌ文化研究の問題点" 『アイヌ文化の形成と変容』(小谷凱宣編). 48-50 (1996)

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  • [Publications] 切替 英雄: "金田一以前の明治期アイヌ語研究:神保小虎のアイヌ語への関心" 『アイヌ文化の形成と変容』(小谷凱宣編). 71-79 (1996)

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  • [Publications] 出利葉浩司: "博物館民族資料はいかに収集されたか -明治年間に残された外国人の記録から-" 北海道開拓記念館研究紀要. 25(掲載予定). (1997)

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  • [Publications] 新美 倫子: "エゾシカの死亡時期査定" 動物考古学. 9(掲載予定). (1997)

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  • [Publications] 小谷 凱宣(編): "アイヌ文化の形成と変容" 名古屋大学人間情報学研究科, 165 (1996)

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  • [Publications] 小谷凱宣(編): "欧米アイヌ・コレクションの比較研究" 名古屋大学人間情報学研究科(印刷中), (1997)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Yoshinobu Kotani: "Problems and Urgency of Ainu Research" Japanese Journal of Ethnology. 61. 245-262 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Toshikazu Sasaki: "On "Enkai Ibun" in Matsushiro Collection" Matsushiro. 9. 1-9 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Toyohiro Nishimoto: "Some problems in Ainu Research as Seen from Archaeology" Origins and Developments of the Ainu Culture (Yoshinobu Kotani, ed.). 48-50 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Hideo Kirikae: "Kotora jinbo's Interest in the Ainu Language as a Precursor to Kyosuke Kindaichi in the Meiji Era." Origins and Developments of the Ainu Culture (Yoshinobu Kotani, ed.). 71-79 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Koji Deriha: "How Ainu Museum Collections were Secured?" Bulletin of Historical Museum of Hokkaido. 25(in press). (1997)

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  • [Publications] Michiko Niimi: "Age Estimation of Hokkaido Deer" Zoo-archaeology. 9(in press). (1997)

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  • [Publications] Yoshinobu Kotani(ed.): Nagoya University. Origins and Development of the Ainu Culture, 1-165 (1996)

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  • [Publications] Yoshinobu Kotani(ed.): (in press). Comparative Study of Euro-American Ainu Collections Nagoya University, (1997)

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