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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

HERITAGE AND MUSEUM IN JAPAN AND FRANCE

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09044044
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A).

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionKWAUSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

OGINO Masahiro  KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 社会学部, 助教授 (90224138)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) OGAWA Nobuhiko  NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FOR HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 文学部, 助教授 (10242992)
WAKITA Kenichi  IWATE PREFECTURE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF POLICY STUDIES, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 総合政策学部, 助教授 (00305319)
Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
KeywordsHERITAGE / MUSEUM / TOURISM / SOCIOLOGY / WAR / ENVIROMENT / 比較社会学 / 戦争遺産
Research Abstract

Recently in Japan, there is a tendency that increasing social significance has given to the existence of cultural properties (Bunkazai) and museums. Based on three-year-survey in Japan, Europe (especially France) and United States, this research project aims to inquire into the meaning of this tendency in a comparative point of view.
Among various findings of our study, what should be noted primarily is the fact that the definition of the word "cultural properties" is totally different between Japan and France. The French word "patrimoine" implies a will to re-evaluate what has been abandoned and to conserve these objects as public properties. Therefore, it can be said that in France the institutional conservation of cultural property plays a central role in the sustenance of social order because by constantly re-evaluating the significance of heritages, the society itself (and its history) is also re-defined.
In Japan, on the other hand, when the word "bunkazai" is used, it is not implied to re-evaluate and make public what has been abandoned. Tradition in Japan has been maintained not through the conservation of the objects but by re-presenting and realizing in a certain "form" what is supposed to have existed in the past. (This can be called "a logic of actualization" .) Thus the conservation of the objects as itself was not considered to be of much importance. What is more, the museum in general was given birth by the natural historical desire of occidental modernity and as Japan did not share this kind of desire, it took quite sometime before the museum as an institution was fully installed this country.

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    (12 results)

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All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] 荻野昌弘: "記憶のフィールドワーク"社会学論集(奈良女子大学). 6号. 79-85 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 小川伸彦: "保存のかたち-文化財・博物館の社会学のために-"社会学論集(奈良女子大学). 6号. 229-235 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 小川伸彦: "保存の空間-博物館がもたらすもの-"研究年報(奈良女子大学文学部). 43号. 49-56 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 荻野昌弘: "社会学における文化の位置"ソシオロジ. 138号(予定). (2000)

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  • [Publications] 鳥越皓之: "景観の創造"昭和堂. 306 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 片桐新自: "歴史的遺産の社会学"新曜社(予定). (2000)

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  • [Publications] OGINO Masahiro: ""Fieldwork in memories : World War II for the French""NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES. No.6. 79-85 (1999)

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  • [Publications] OGAWA Nobuhiko: ""The Way Things are Preserved : For the Sociology of Cultural Property and Museum""NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES. No.6. 229-235 (1999)

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  • [Publications] OGAWA Nobuhiko: ""On the Space of Conservation : Consequence of Museums""ANNUAL REPORT OF STUDEIS IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, The Faculty of Letters Nara Women's University. No.43. 49-56 (1999)

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  • [Publications] OGINO Masahiro: ""Place of Culture in Sociology""SOSIOROJI. No.138 (to appear). (2000)

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  • [Publications] TORIGOE Hiroyuki: "Creation of Scenery"Showado. 306 (1999)

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  • [Publications] KATAGIRI Sinji: "Sociology of Historical environment"Sinsyosha (to appear). (2000)

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