ENDGENOUS DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL CULTURE IN EAST ASIA

2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 11610186
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
• Research Institution: Ehime University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Norihiro EHIME UNIVERSITY, LAW AND LETTERS, PROFESSOR, 法文学部, 教授 (10192676)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKAHASHI Saburo EHIME UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY, PROFESSOR, 現代社会学部, 教授 (80033736)
• Project Period (FY): 1999 – 2001
• Keywords: endogenous development / local culture / east Asia / border / interaction / sacred precincts / Japanese society

Research Abstract

The purpose of this study is clarifying the affinity between the endogenous development and the interaction of different lifestyles in historical border area though the field survey of Iyo-city, Ehime-prefecture. That city is small and local that has only 30,000 populations, but has embodying an endogenous development on tuna thin slice industries that occupied the share of 70% in Japan.
The major findings are as follows:
1. Pre-modern border area has affinity with endogenous development as the contact place of political or economic system. In Japan the border of the fief is important for analyzing such development.
2. Because of the fief border, the exchange of commodities and personal had become active in that district. On the other hand, the fief lord utilizes the power of residents for expanding the harbor, and approved them to make an autonomous zone.
3. The basic conditions of the endogenous development of the tuna thin slice industries had formed by the interaction of different life lifestyles among fisherman, peasant and shipping merchant that related to the existence of the autonomous zone.