| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Today, studies on ethnic conflicts and conflict resolutions, which can be seen in many places in the world, become to be an important trend in anthropological researches. In this research project, the mechanisms of ethnic symbiosis which may contribute to conflict resolutions were scientifically and empirically analyzed from the cultural anthropological point of view. The cultural revitalization movements, political-economic demands and legal resolutions, narratives on the processes of ethnic symbiosis, which are found in the developments of the Ainu political-cultural movements, have been recorded by photos, VTR, and audio tapes, through participation observations and interviews.
In particular the revival of the Ainu death ritual was discussed as processes of ethnic conflict and conflict resolution and funeral rites and various discourses on them were analyzed from an anthropological viewpoint. As a result, the following are apparent from my finding : (1)The revival of the Ainu death ritual was performed as a practice of ethnic identity, (2)The idea of symbiosis was behind the conflict resolution made possible by combining the Buddhist and Ainu methods for funeral rites, (3)Non-Ainu Japanese and Ainu assumed the important agency in terms of the formation of ethnic symbiosis.
These findings were presented at the Section of Ethnic Conflicts and Conflict Resolutions, the 15th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences XV ICAES2K3 "Humankind/Nature Interaction : Past, Present and Future, "Florence, University of Florence,2003.
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