2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Environmental Change and Subsistence Strategy of Ethnic Minorities in the National and Development Policies : Comparative Studies in Northeastern Africa
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13371008
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
FUKUI Katsuyoshi Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environment Studies, Professor, 大学院・人間・環境学研究科, 教授 (60014510)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYAWAKI Yukio Osaka Prefecture University, College of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor, 総合科学部, 助教授 (60174223)
MATSUDA Hiroshi Kyoto Bunkyo University, Faculty of Human Studies, Associate Professor, 人間学部, 助教授 (90288689)
SATO Ren'ya Kyushu University, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Associate Professor, 大学院・比較社会文化研究院, 助教授 (20293938)
FUJMOTO Takeshi Kyoto University, University of Human Environments, Associate Professor, 人間環境学部, 助教授 (20351190)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Keywords | HORN OF AFRICA / ETHIOPIA / NATIONAL POLICY / SUBSISTENCE SYSTEM / USE OF ENVIRONMENT / SURVIVAL STRATEGY / DEVELOPMENT / ETHNICITY |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to reveal empirically focusing Ethiopia, how local ethnic groups in peripheral areas work out their survival strategy and reorganize their social structure in the process of the penetration of national policies and development aid.
For the above purpose, in the first, we collected basic data by interviewing and examining archival documents both in Ethiopian imperial regime and in Derg socialism regime in order to investigate how policies of Central government have an influence on Southwestern ethnic societies in Ethiopia. To put it concretely we compared on each investigator's fields ‘Social Correspondence' like the transformation of local political organization and Land tenure and Ecological Change' like, the change of the skill of farming and cattle breeding and the proportion and the species of crops that would happen in the long run Still more, comparing the ecological data and the aerial photographs, we investigated the change of environmental use cause
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d by the national development policies.
We held meetings in Japan several times a year to exchange information with each other and put forward inclusive research. On the other hand, nine investigators and collaborators including the chief conducted field work in southwestern Ethiopia to collect more information and aim at grasp the present condition in diversified and multilayered way As a result, It is clarified that the extent or quality of the influence of central government's policy on ethnic societies in southwestern Ethiopia has many varieties in different phases in three political regime as the Empire, Derg, and EPRDF, which is indicated in natural environments and ecological resource or customs of each ethnic groups.
These achievements were worked up into the book, ‘Socialized Eco-Resources-Incessant Rebirth of Ethiopia-‘published from Kyoto University Press. It is argued in this book holistically and multilaterally how Central government's policy have affected on peripheral ethnic societies and ecological resources.in the historical and political background from Italian-occupation era Less
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