An Interdisciplinary Study on the Recording of Memories of the War in the Amami Islands

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K21652
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 3:History, archaeology, museology, and related fields
• Research Institution: Kagoshima University
• Principal Investigator: KANESHIRO Itoe 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域法文学系, 准教授 (40709482)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 石田 智子 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域法文学系, 准教授 (40624359) ; 佐藤 宏之 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域教育学系, 准教授 (50599339)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-06-28 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 戦跡 / 戦争体験 / 奄美群島 / 記憶の継承

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focuses on the war sites in the Amami Islands, and aims to clarify from the standpoints of archaeology, cultural anthropology, and history what the war experienced on the islands was like, and to construct a methodology for passing on the war experience. During the research period, we conducted fieldwork at war sites in the Amami Islands and conducted interviews focusing on Hoanden, which had a strong relationship with the local community, to clarify some aspects of the war experience unique to the islands during the war.

Free Research Field

文化人類学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の学術的意義は、奄美群島の戦争遺跡について、考古学・文化人類学・歴史学という複数の位相から捉え、次世代へ継承する方法について学際的な視点から検討したことである。そして、その研究成果をそれぞれの研究に活用するだけではなく、ポスターやブックレットを発行することによって、地域社会に還元したことに社会的意義がある