Structural Social Change in South India in an Era of Economic Reform.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25300056
• 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: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Sugimoto Yoshio 国立民族学博物館, 民族文化研究部, 教授 (60148294)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Sagayaraj A 南山大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (10434606) ; Sekine Yasumasa 関西学院大学, 社会学部, 教授 (40108197) ; Sugimoto Seiko 京都文教大学, 総合社会学部, 教授 (70298743)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Yanagisawa Haruka 東京大学, 名誉教授 (20046121) ; Matsuo Mizuho 国立民族学博物館, 先端人類科学研究部, 准教授 (80583608)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 経済自由化 / インド / 社会変動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Scholars of the Socio-Cultural Anthropology and its related fields of study conducted field research a total of more than 20 times in various areas of India, and Indian societies in France, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Dubai etc., and published 6 articles, 12books, and read 21 papers in various academic conferences. The accumulation of ethnographical studies of villages, towns, and Mega Cities like Chennai, which had been rarely conducted is itself a remarkable contribution for the development of the study of structural Socio-Cultural changes of this area. Through these studies, along with 1) the socio-economic changes and 2) changes of caste structure according to our original hypothesis, 3) the religious landscape has totally changed in these a couple of decades.

Free Research Field

文化人類学