Construction of new social order in Papua New Guinea

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25300052
• 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: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: Toyoda Yukio 立教大学, 観光学部, 教授 (20197974)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KUMAGAI Keichi お茶の水女子大学, 人間創成科学研究科, 教授 (80153344) ; KAWASAKI Ippei 東海大学, 海洋学部, 教授 (10259377) ; ISHIKAWA Satoshi 総合地球環境学研究所, 研究部, 准教授 (40433908) ; SHINMOTO Mariko 広島大学, 社会科学研究科, 研究員 (60634219)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ICHIKAWA Tetsu 名古屋市立大学, 人文社会学部, 准教授 (40435540)
• Research Collaborator: KAMIMURA Toru
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: パプアニューギニア / 公共圏 / 開発

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Papua New Guinea, which has a short history of contact with modern European societies, there appear new social movements and organizations which are not based on traditional communities, but based on new principles. We conducted field research in cities and villages in Papua New Guinea, and tried to verify the hypothesis that these new movements can be explained by the concept of ‘pubic sphere’, which originated in Europe. We found that some of the characteristics of these movements are different from those of ‘public sphere’, and it is not yet clear whether they should be explained by the concept of ‘public sphere’, or a new concept should be applied.

Free Research Field

文化人類学