A Cultural Anthropological Study of Social Relationships Concerning Meat in South Asia

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H07428
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Otemon Gakuin University (2017); National Museum of Ethnology (2016)
• Principal Investigator: Nakagawa Kanako 追手門学院大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (80782002)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 南アジア / 食文化 / 都市 / 社会関係 / 肉食文化 / グローバル化 / カースト / ハラール

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examined the social relationships concerning the meat in South Asian cities. In the South Asian context, the social relationships on meat had been regarded to be restricted in norms of caste, ethnicity and religions especially pure/impure concepts of Hindu and halal/ haram concepts of Islam. In contrast, I considered the social relationships on meat ethnographically, and show the bottom up process of creating local rules and norms through the everyday commercial interactions beyond caste, ethnic and religious borders.

Free Research Field

文化人類学