2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Rethinking Folk Performance in Early Medieval Japan
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19K13054
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
Lazarus Ashton 九州大学, 人文科学研究院, 講師 (20814065)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Japanese performance / Japanese literature / Folk performance |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Due to a change in employment, my time spent researching on this grant was unfortunately cut short. Nonetheless, over the past two years I have made progress toward the goals outlined in my original proposal. My book manuscript, which is nearing completion, re-centers non-elites in the cultural history of early medieval Japan, demonstrating the degree to which their embodied practices impacted the wider cultural environment. Through my research I have been able to show that class and social status during this time period were not entirely deterministic; and that performance in particular created charged spaces of interclass contact. I believe that continued work in this direction will yield new approaches to thinking about the relationship between representation and embodiment in premodern times.
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Research Products
(1 results)
