2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ethnographical Study on FC, FGM/C: Choices on life course and social status of African women
Project/Area Number |
15K01875
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Area studies
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Research Institution | Toyo University (2018) Kyoto University (2015-2017) |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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Keywords | 女性のライフコース / 一夫多妻 / 強制結婚 / 家父長制 / 年令体系 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the major issues in Africa. Despite powerful global and national movements for abolishing it, many groups have maintained the practice. In this presentation I would describe the dynamic process underlying the changes in FGM/C and clarify the gap between global discourse and local recognition by focusing on the newly created “cutting styles,” which involve less mutilation than the traditional style. The newly invented kati-kati style now has become popular among the secondary school girls which represents their new womanhood identities. They do not view choices about circumcision as involving decisions between “right or wrong”, “good or bad”, “healthy or unhealthy” and “safe or unsafe” but rather as ways to express their positions to the “Western modernized world” or to express their own identities in the context of local tradition.
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Free Research Field |
アフリカ地域研究
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
コミュニティにおける廃絶運動は主として開発プロジェクトによる教育プログラムをとおして行われているが、そもそも当事者である人々はこうしたことを運動推進者よりずっと身近な問題として理解し、それらを承知した上でこの習慣を長年継続している。教育プログラムは、個別社会の文脈下での意味の多様性や、現場で起きていることの多様性に対応できていないという問題を抱えており、そのために多くのコミュニティでFC・FGM/Cの隠蔽化が進行している。本研究の成果は、FC・FGM/Cの問題を個別社会の文脈から捉えなおし、廃絶運動を個別社会の主体性を重視したものへと変革する方途を拓くことに貢献できる。
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