Compilation of an ethnographic dictionary of Tibetan nomadic vocabulary based on the study of Tibetan nomads' wisdom of living

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H03203
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Izumi Hoshi 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 教授 (80292994)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 平田 昌弘 帯広畜産大学, 畜産学部, 准教授 (30396337) ; 海老原 志穂 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 研究員 (30511266) ; 別所 裕介 駒澤大学, 総合教育研究部, 准教授 (40585650)
• Research Collaborator: Nan taijia ; YAMAGUCHI Takayoshi ; TSUMAGARI Shinichi ; OGAWA Ryunosuke ; IWATA Keisuke
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: チベット / 牧畜 / 辞典編纂 / チベット語 / 生活知

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we carried out fieldwork on the language and culture of Tibetan pastoralists living in Qinghai, China. We collected data on their cultural knowledge of their pastoral life, including pasturage, livestock management, milk and meat processing, food, clothing, housing, and folk religion. We constructed a co-authoring database for compiling a dictionary based on the records accumulated during our fieldwork, and we succeeded in compiling the Dictionary of Tibetan Pastoralism (pilot version), which includes 3,500 lemmas with Japanese-English-Chinese translation and speech sounds by a native speaker with phonetic notations. A large number of photos, illustrations, and notes were also added to supplement the explanations. The dictionary is published in PDF, web, and iOS versions (see http://nomadic.aa-ken.jp). We also made a documentary film titled A Day in the Life of Tibetan Pastoralists as an additional multimedia record of the culture of Tibetan pastoralists.

Free Research Field

言語学