Closing House and Opening House; A Diachronic and Pluralistic Study on 'House Structure' in the Societies of Malaysia

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24510364
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Ikuei Junior College
• Principal Investigator: MIURA Tetsuya 育英短期大学, その他部局等, 准教授 (80444040)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MASUDA Gaku 京都大学, 地球環境学堂, 特定研究員 (00455916) ; SAKURADA Ryoko 育英短期大学, 現代コミュニケーション学科, 准教授 (30586714)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: マレーシア / 家 / 親族 / 地域研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on the character of “House” within multiple ethnic groups diachronically and pluralistically. A“House”is analyzed as the place of practice for a variety of families and non-families relationship, which has dynamic structure changing to form depending on the development of human relationship belonging to itself. From this analysis it revealed following: characters of each ethnic group appear alternating relationship of a container (house as a building), its contents (household goods and their placement), and dynamics constituted by above mentioned two elements (practice of human relationship) . Also, practice relating to food has significant impact on the dynamics of social relationship, within the various practice of “House”.

Free Research Field

文化人類学