Locality and Resident's Awareness in the Process of Disaster Area Reconstruction; Practical Applications for Oral Histories

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520923
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University
• Principal Investigator: NAKANO KIWA 大東文化大学, 経営学部, 教授 (80320084)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): FUKUI Youko 大東文化大学, 経営学部, 講師 (90409615) ; TAKAKUWA Fumiko 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 教授 (90289984) ; TAKAKUWA Mamoru 大東文化大学, 国際関係学部, 教授 (60127769)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 災害復興 / 記憶と語り / 地域性 / 比較 / 文化人類学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to study how residents of previous disaster areas, Genkai-Island, Miyake-Island, Nagaoka city and Ojiya city, have dealt with disasters. In narrative analyses of their experiences, attention was paid to their knowledge and practices which they had been accustomed throughout their lives including environments, social relationships, customs, beliefs and so on.
It is found that they have try to re-create their lives, and a tendency also supported in the narratives collected during the period of recovery of Onagawa-Cho, one of disaster areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake. In addition, the study of the tsunami affected area of Sri Lanka which has a different social and cultural context to Japan provide comparative disaster studies. It is found that different contexts indeed lead to different processes of reconstruction. Furthermore, comparative studies should be done to commemorated disasters and their aftermaths.

Free Research Field

文化人類学・民俗学