2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Re-examining Theories on African Witchcraft: A Micro-analysis of Cases in Uganda
| Project/Area Number |
24520912
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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/Folklore
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
UMEYA Kiyoshi 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 准教授 (80405894)
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| Research Collaborator |
KIRUMIRA Edward
OWOR Raphael
ODOI Fredrik Tanga
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 妖術の近代 / アフリカ / 人類学理論 / Human Sacrifice / ウガンダ / 民族誌 / 王国 / 近代化 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
During my fieldwork in mainly eastern and central Uganda―focusing on a few societies and information collected from libraries in Japan and Uganda―huge amount of ethnographic data was examined from a micro-level analytical perspective. The examined data does not support, at least empirically, the scheme of ‘modernity of witchcraft’ by Peter Geschiere and the Comaroffs’ notion that millennium capitalism might accelerate the rampancy of witchcraft completely. Field data has been carefully revised reflexively using PDCA cycle. Older archival documents in libraries in the UK should have been referred, and farther ethnographic research should have been carried out among pastoralists in north-eastern Uganda. The limitations of this research should be overcome in forthcoming research.
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| Free Research Field |
社会人類学
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