Inter-Ethnic Communication in a Symbiotic Society in Primary Tropical Forests in Borneo

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25300045
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Shinshu University
• Principal Investigator: Kanazawa Kentaro 信州大学, 学術研究院総合人間科学系, 准教授 (70340924)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 分藤 大翼 信州大学, 学術研究院総合人間科学系, 准教授 (70397579) ; 小泉 都 京都大学, 総合博物館, 特別研究員(RPD) (00506884)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Sakuma Kyoko 立命館大学, 衣笠総合研究機構, 専門研究員 (50759321)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 文化人類学 / 民族学 / 熱帯原生林 / 狩猟採集民 / 農耕民

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined the symbiotic relationship between hunter-gatherers and farming neighbors from the analytical viewpoint of the communication process going around the primary tropical forests in Borneo. In the state of Sarawak, Malaysia commercial logging has already reached the deepest parts near the border. Nevertheless, there is one area where the primary forest remains unlogged in the Upper Baram Basin. In a village surveyed, marriages between different ethnic groups were common. Not only marriages of male farmers and female hunter-gatherers, but also cases of marriage of male hunter-gatherers and female farmers were observed. The hunter-gatherers and farming neighbors have been present at church and primary school and piled up fellowship since childhood. Although the difference was observed in political positions between the two, they respected each other's intentions while preventing them from being separated by development actors.

Free Research Field

環境人類学