2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ethnographic Study on Local Shopping Districts
| Project/Area Number |
26884018
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Cultural anthropology
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| Research Institution | Ibaraki University (2015)
The University of Tokyo (2014) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 民俗学 / 商店街 / 地方都市 / 経営 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of this study was to clarify the contemporary situation of “Shoten-gai(the local city shopping district in Japan) “. In order to clarify that, I have carried out fieldwork in two shopping districts of Katori, Chiba prefecture and Yanagawa, Fukuoka prefecture. As a result the following was revealed. (1) Though “Shoten-gai” was born in twentieth century, merchants have forgotten the fact. They regard it as a traditional. (2) External actors (scholars, NPOs, local governments etc...) regard Shoten-gai as cultural and historical resources. This is why the residents who have quitted the business are invisible behind “shutter mall” discourses. Of course, however, they are living still in there.
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| Free Research Field |
民俗学
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