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1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Traditonal control and modern adaptation of common property resources on pasturing

Research Project

Project/Area Number 08610315
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

FUKUI Katsuyoshi  KYOTO UNIVERSITY,Faculty of Integrated Human Studies Professor, 総合人間学部, 教授 (60014510)

Project Period (FY) 1996 – 1997
KeywordsEnviromental recognition / Okinawa / Common property resorces / Stock raising / Livestock control / Pasturing / Circulation / Inter-communication among species
Research Abstract

With increasing international interest in control and management of global common property, we attempted to make a comparison between traditional way of control in several locations in Japan and made a survey of biodiversity of historical transition and modern adjustment of common property resources. The eventual aim of this study is to bring out the characteristics of common property resources in modern Japan, using the concept of "common", which is open to anyone for access and "communal", which only authorized member have access to.
In 1996, we made a pilot survey in the following areas as ; Asoh, Takayama, and Kurosima and Okinawa. In 1997, we chose Kurosima and Ishigakijima as main research places, and made a concentrate research on the use of common pasture and the contfol system for livestock as an example of tranditional common property resources. We also surveyed Yamagatamura as a comparative place. As a result of that, the following facts became evident in each areas.
Unlike the membership pasturage that has been a traditional custom in Japan, common pasture was formed by combining private and town property in Kuroshima. They practiced common pasturage regulating its membership only to those who own private property within the pasture. However it became clear that they have been maintaining and controlling the cattle ranch as common property by making use of "common" as if "communal". What they do is to sell off town property before and after the establishment of the pasturage in order to secure priveate property.
In contrast, Yamagatamura traditionally had practiced common pasturing through the way of membership to use a natural forest.However, it became clear that it has adopted a new way which is to control livestock by moving a pasture from a natural forest to a modern common pasture as a result of the necessity for efficiency of calves production according to modernization of stock raising in recent years.

  • Research Products

    (8 results)

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All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 福井 勝義 他: "「コモンズを支えるパラダイムは」" 人環フォーラム. 2. 14-19 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 福井 勝義 編: ""Abustracts of the Main Publibations"" Comparative Studies of Northeast African Societies : Anthropology, Linguistics and History 'A review of Japanese research projects 1987-1997'. 22-23 (1997)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 福井 勝義 他編: "Redefining Nature : Ecology, Culture and Domestication" Berg Publishers, 608 (1996)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] 福井 勝義 他: "岩波講座 文化人類学 第二巻 環境の人類誌" 岩波書店, 245 (1997)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Katsuyoshi Fukui etc.: "'Paradigm for common property resorces'" "Human and enviromental Forum". Vol.2. 14-19 (1997)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Katsuyoshi Fukui ed.: "'Abustracts of the Main Publications'" "Comparative Studies of Northeast African Societies Anthropology, Lingusitics and History'A review of Japanese research projects'". 22-23 (1997)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Katsuyoshi Fukui ed.: Redefining Nature : Ecology, Culture, and Domestication. Berg Publishers, (1997)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Katsuyoshi Fukui etc.: Cultural Anthropology Vol.2'An Anthropology of the Enviromental'. Iwanami, (1997)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 1999-03-16  

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