A Study of Creative Articulative Knowledge from a Perspective of Anthropology of Everyday Life : Global Discourse and Local Practices

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25284175
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUDA Motoji 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50173852)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ABE Toshihiro 大谷大学, 文学部, 准教授 (90410969) ; IJICHI Noriko 大阪市立大学, 文学部, 准教授 (40332829) ; NAKAMURA Ritsuko 法政大学, 現代社会学部, 教授 (00172461) ; FURUKAWA Akira 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (90199422)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 小さな共同体 / 生活世界 / 日常人類学 / 接合知

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this project is to examine the mechanism of knowledge genesis, which can articulate the universal and global standard knowledge system and particular and local cultures. The former type of knowledge has made a great contribution to human development, that is, to liberate individuals from enclosure of modern nation state, to conserve the global environment, and to protect universal human rights. Bu it is also severely criticized as violent imposition of Western standard. On the other hand, particular local cultures could lead us to reassessment of indigenous values and relativize Western-centrism. However it is subjected to harsh criticism that it demystify exclusion and oppression under the name of cultural relativism. This study has focused on battlefields where two forces interacted and articulated with each other and examined its mechanism from a perspective of anthropology of everyday life world.

Free Research Field

文化人類学