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2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Reconstructing Ainu Culture based on overseas Ainu Collections.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10044006
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
Research InstitutionNanzan University (2000)
Nagoya University (1998-1999)

Principal Investigator

KOTANI Yoshinobu  Nanzan University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (40111091)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) DERIHA Koji  Historical Museum of Hokkaido, Division of Research, Curator in Chief, 学芸部, 課長 (40142088)
SASAKI Toshikazu  Tokyo National Museum, Division of Collections, Curator, 資料部, 室長 (80132702)
OGIHARA Shinko  Chiba University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (00129074)
NIIMI Michiko  Nagoya University, University Museum, Associate Professor, 名古屋大学博物館, 助教授 (10262065)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 2000
KeywordsAinu Culture / Material Culture / Ethnology / Native Culture / Ainu People / Museum Collection / Ainu Study
Research Abstract

1) Through investigations of overseas Ainu collections carried out over last two decades, it can now be clearly sai that about 13,000 pieces of Ainu specimens are available in European, Russian and North American museums. All kinds of written information on them are now assembled and are ready to be put into an Ainu database, although vidual information still remains to be worked out.
2) In mid-December, 2000, we held an international symposium on "Ainu collections in Europe and North America" at the University of Bonn, with participants from Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, USA and Japan. The proceedings of this symposium are now being edited at the Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Bonn, Germany and will be published later toward the end of this year.
3) One of the important problems pointed out at the above-mentioned symposium is a necessity to build a database incorporating all the overseas Ainu collections(both written records and visual informa … More tion of them). All the participants agreed upon its importance as an initial step toward furthering of Ainu studies, but it was also pointed out that there is a difficulty in dealing with photographs or slides of museum specimens in Western Europe, where it is mandatory for each museum to charge a certain amount of patent fee on every artifact of which visual information is used even in such a database. We have thus made a decision not to make use of slides or other visual information on Western European Ainu collections simply because the total amount of such fees well exceed the upper range of the grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Education.
4) The final report consists of two parts. Part one contains three research papers on Ainu collections in Europe and North America and then touch upon the important background against which roles of Meiji-era Japanese ethnologists and anthropologists should be re-examined. Part two contains three lists of Ainu collections in Western Europe, Leipzig Museum of Ethnology(former East Germany)and North America. These lists would serve as a starting point for further studies of the Ainu culture in general. Less

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] AOYAGI, Nobukatsu and Koji DERIHA: "Japanese Ainu collections."Fitzhugh and Dubreuil (eds.) Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People.. 176-182 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] KOTANI, Yoshinobu: "Ainu Collections in North America : Documentation Projects and the Frederick Starr Collections."Fizhugh and Dubreuil (eds.) Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People.. 136-147 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] KREINER, Josef: "The European Image of the Ainu as Reflected in Museum Collections."Fitzhugh and Dubreuil (eds.) Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People.. 125-131 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] OGIHARA, Shinko: "The St. Petersburg Ainu Collections."Fitzhugh and Dubreuil (eds.) Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People.. 132-135 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] SASAKI, Toshikazu: "Ainu-e : A Historical Review."Fitzhugh and Dubreuil (eds.) Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People.. 79-85 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] FITZHUGH, W.W.& C.O. DUBREUIL. eds.: "Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People."Washington : Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution & Seattle : University of Washinton Press.. 415 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Aoyagi, Nobukatsu, and Koji Deriha: "Japanese Ainu Collections."Fitzhugh, W.W.and C.O.Dubreuil(eds.)Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People. Washington : Smithsonian Institution.. 176-182 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Kotani, Yoshinobu: "Ainu Collections in North America ; Documentation Projects and the Frederick Starr Collections."Fitzhugh, W.W.and C.O.Dubreuil(eds.)Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People. Washington : Smithsonian Institution.. 136-147 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Kreiner, Josef: "The European Image of the Ainu as Reflected in Museum Collections."Fitzhugh, W.W.and C.O.Dubreuil(eds.)Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People. Washington : Smithsonian Institution.. 125-131 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Ogihara, Shinko: "The St.Petersburg Ainu Collections."Fitzhugh, W.W.and C.O.Dubreuil(eds.)Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People. Washington : Smithsonian Institution.. 132-135 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Sasaki, Toshikazu: "Ainu-e : A Historical Review."Fitzhugh, W.W.and C.O.Dubreuil(eds.)Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People. Washington : Smithsonian Institution.. 79-85 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Fitzhugh, William W.and Chisato O.Dubreuil(eds.): "Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People"Washington : Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.. (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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