1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Survey of Area Studies in Europe and America
| Project/Area Number |
03041018
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
GOTO Akira Professor, Institute of Oriental Culture, Univ. of Tokyo, 東洋文化研究所, 教授 (50079224)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MATSUBARA Masatake Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, 教授 (30110084)
SASAKI Komei Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, 教授 (10031692)
ITAGAKI Yuzo Professor Emeritus, (Institute of Oriental Culture), Univ. of Tokyo, 東洋文化研究所, 名誉教授 (10014458)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1991
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| Keywords | Area studies / Institutions for area studies / Area studies specialist / Global studies / Middle Eastern studies / Science policy / Integrated area studies / Comparative approach among area studies |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research program is to examine the current trends and achievement in the area studies concerning the different regions on the global level. The activities of research institutions on those area studies are to be evaluated from the view-points of organizational innovation, methodological development and paradigmatic challenge.
In the fiscal year 1991-92, our research activity has been concentrated on the academic institutions of Middle Eastern studies or international-global studies in the U. S. A. The survey has been conducted through a series of interviews with some responsible and/or concerned personalities mainly in the East Coast. The visited institutions were : Georgetown University's CCAS, George Washington University, Woodrow Wilson Center, the American University's SIS, the Middle East Institute, Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture of MIT, Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, New School for Social Research, Columbia University's Middle East Institute, Social Science Research Council and some other institutions concerned.
The observations and acquired materials are under our studies. Efforts to reconstruct educational systems in the area studies and aspirations to seek encouragements for a breakthrough have been notified, although the organization of the area studies in the U. S. A. is solidly established and the advantage is turning to be a burden for reorganization in a new stage.
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Research Products
(12 results)
