Source Community Utilization of Ethnological Collections for Information Sharing in Japanese Museums

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26704012
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: ITO Atsunori 国立民族学博物館, 学術資源研究開発センター, 准教授 (50610317)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 博物館人類学 / 協働 / ソースコミュニティ / ドキュメンテーション / 先住民 / 知識 / カルチャル・センシティビティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project was an academic and practical attempt where researchers, the museum personnel, and people from the source community formed a team within the framework of a joint international research to improve advanced informatization of collected materials (re-collection of material information and disclosure adjustment process). This Project promoted "reconnection" between Hopi (a Native American tribe in the southwestern United States) people as the source community and ethnographic materials that are said to have been created by Hopi and are now stored by cultural institutions, including 4 ethnology museums in Japan. The objective of the "reconnection" efforts was to reanimate the materials. Therefore, museum materials and information were mutually shared; items to be added and corrected were clarified; and additions and corrections were made by reflecting reviewers' interpretations on the basis of a cultural context.

Free Research Field

文化人類学