2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Anthropological Study on Pacific Contemporary Art: Art Activities of the Pacific Peoples in New Zealand
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15K03058
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology
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| Research Institution | Hosei University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | 文化人類学 / ニュージーランド / 現代アート / アイデンティティ / ヘリテージ / ポストコロニアル / 移民 / ポリネシア |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is only after WWII that Pacific peoples started to migrate to New Zealand. Auckland is the city where the Pacific peoples are highly concentrated, although they are still minorities. In 1980s, some self-made Pacific artists started their activities. Their artworks were different from so-called Pacific Art famous among European art circles in a way that each of them wanted to create original style of their own following the European Art tradition, although they appropriated some design of the heritage. Multicultural situation in Auckland created a contact zone which affected them in perceiving their own identities in their creation of artworks. Nowadays, young Pacific artists of the second generation migrants are often children of mixed marriage and graduates of art schools and universities. Although they respect their parents' homelands, they are more aware of the living situation and the social issues of the Pacific peoples in the host society expressing in their artworks.
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| Free Research Field |
人文学・文化人類学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
いわゆる太平洋芸術とは欧米の側で作り出した分類であることを明らかにし、今日支配的になっている欧米のアートの概念の特性を明らかにした。ニュージーランド・オークランドで展開されている太平洋現代芸術の作品は、スタイルやデザインで旧太平洋芸術からの借用はあるものの、欧米のアートの概念に沿った展開となっていることを示した。芸術や文化の創造において、コンタクト・ゾーンが有効に働くことを示した。そうした環境の中で、マイノリティにとって芸術のヘリテージは資源であり、アイデンティティは意識下に置かれるものとなる。
マイノリティの存在は、マジョリティにとっても社会を豊かにする上で、有意義であることを示した。
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