Development of the Connection Region between Cultural Psychiatry an Cultural/Medial Anthropology, and Refurbishment of the Culture Concept in the Age of Increasing Globalization

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370960
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Keio University (2016-2017); Tokyo University of Social Welfare (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Miyasaka Keizo 慶應義塾大学, 文学部(三田), 名誉教授 (40135645)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 文化観の刷新 / 文化精神医学と文化人類学・医療人類学の接続領域

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research focuses on “Development of the Connection Region between Cultural Psychiatry and Cultural/Medial Anthropology, and Refurbishment of the Culture Concept in the Age of Increasing Globalization.” Based on participant observation, key-informants interviews with regards to cultural psychiatrists mostly, and indigenous healers and their medical anthropological researchers in part, the research intends to clarify the newly appearing intercultural processes as embedded in cultural psychiatric practices after the 1990s. The scope of newly arising innovation of culture concept as embedded in these processes has turned out a significant research momentum for revitalizing the connection region between cultural psychiatry and cultural/medical anthropology. The arrays of socio-cultural characteristics as found in the regional trends in cultural psychiatry with reference to alternative therapies with regards to Canada, Japan, Holland, Singapore,Vietnam have been scrutinized.

Free Research Field

文化人類学