Folk History in the Middle Mekong Corridor

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26300010
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: Nagata Yoshikatsu 大阪市立大学, 大学院創造都市研究科, 准教授 (70208023)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 園江 満 日本大学, 生物資源科学部, 講師 (90646184) ; 横山 智 名古屋大学, 環境学研究科, 教授 (30363518) ; 星川 圭介 富山県立大学, 工学部, 准教授 (20414039) ; 柴山 守 京都大学, 国際戦略本部, 研究員 (10162645)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 国際研究者交流 / メコン河中流 / 東北タイ / 生活誌

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Field surveys were conducted mostly in Nakhon Phanom Province in the Northeastern Thailand. Information on village level distribution of ethnic groups in Thai side of the middle Mekong corridor has become richer than before and can be linked to information on that in Lao side. Voices of basic vocabularies of each ethnic group were recorded. Under the situation of difficulty in finding authentic speakers, these records are precious materials of ethnic identity for next generation in this area. Surveys on fermented fish which is one of local traditional processed foods revealed no significant difference in processing among ethnic groups; however, it is remarked that many families still continue to produce many variety of fermented fishes for their domestic consumption and they choose proper ratio of basic materials such as salt and rice husks for different cooking recipes. Further research must be required on relationship of some agricultural tools between those in southern China.

Free Research Field

地域情報学