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2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A historical anthropology of disaster culture in tsunami-prone communities in Japan

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 25770310
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Cultural anthropology
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

KIMURA Shuhei  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (10512246)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Keywords文化人類学 / 災害文化 / 歴史人類学 / 津波
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study I conducted field research several times on the change of communities since the Showa Sanriku Tsunami (1933) at Sanriku-cho, Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture, where it is said that local communities maintain "disaster culture." Without using an easy label of "disaster culture," I provided different patterns of the local disaster preparedness (and unpreparedness). Elucidating the historical change of local communities before the East Japan Great Earthquake (2011), I examined what so-called "disaster culture" is.

Free Research Field

文化人類学

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Published: 2017-05-10  

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