2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Comparative Study of the Methodology and Practice of Agricultural Science as a Field Science : From the "Agriculture-as-Culture" Perspective
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15380151
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
SUEHARA Tatsuro Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Professor, 農学研究科, 教授 (00179102)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HIROOKA Hiroyuki Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Professor, 農学研究科, 教授 (60192720)
SHIGETA Masayoshi Kyoto University, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Associate Professor, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 助教授 (80215962)
IKEGAMI Koichi Kinki University, Faculty of Agriculture, Professor, 農学部, 教授 (90176082)
SUGIMURA Kazuhiko Fukui Prefectural University, Center for Arts and Sciences, Professor, 学術教養センター, 教授 (40211982)
IWASAKI Masaya Aichi University, Faculty of Economics, Associate Professor, 経済学部, 助教授 (40221791)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | fieldwork / agricultural science / culture / little community / local agriculture / Japanese agriculture / France / moral economy |
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| Research Abstract |
The main results of this research project are summarized in the following three points.
First, we have pointed out how important it is for us to see agricultural science as a field science, and have successfully presented some practical methods for developing the discipline as a field science. To put it more concretely, we have pointed out that agricultural science must be studied not only through statistical analysis, but also through fieldwork. Furthermore, we have shown that fieldwork as a research method is most suited for the study of the so-called "little communities", and that in analyzing such communities the concept of "socio-agricultural structure" is very useful. Suehara's recent work entitled Agriculture and Human Beings (Suehara 2004) is one of the products of our efforts to apply the above-mentioned methods to the analysis of different types of agriculture and society that actually exist in the world.
Second, we have shown how important it is for agricultural scientists to
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pay more attention to the close link between agriculture and culture. We have investigated and analyzed the ways in which agriculture and culture are connected to one another within a local community, by doing fieldwork in different local communities mainly in Japan but also in France and African countries. Then, the results of the research conducted both at home and abroad have been carefully compared. Part of the results has been already published as a research report entitled A Comparative Study of the Methodology and Practice of Agricultural Science as a Field Science : From the "Agriculture-as-Culture "Perspective (Suehara ed. 2006).
Third and finally, we have achieved considerable success in making some of our research results known to researchers in other countries. The greater part of this project is based on the research activities we have done in Japan, but, from the outset of this project, we felt it necessary not only to compare our results and methodology with those found and employed in other countries, but also to make ours widely known to foreign researchers. It was for this purpose that some of us, including Suehara (the head investigator), presented their research results at international conferences, including the 5^<th> PEKEA International Conference held in France (2005) and the 1^<st> and 2^<nd> International Conferences of Moral Economy held in Tanzania (2004, 2005), where their presentations received good response from foreign researchers. Less
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[Book] 雑穀の自然史2003
Author(s)
重田眞義他
Total Pages
1-247
Publisher
北海道大学図書刊行会
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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