Emotion and Practice : New Direction of Development Anthropology

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320174
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: SEKINE Hisao 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (60283462)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OGUNI Kazuko 日本福祉大学, 国際福祉開発学部, 准教授 (20513568) ; NAITO Junko 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 専任講師 (50567295) ; SHIRAKAWA Chihiro 大阪大学, 大学院人間科学研究科, 准教授 (60319994) ; FUJIKAKE Yoko 横浜国立大学, 大学院都市イノベーション研究院, 教授 (70385128)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 開発人類学 / 感情 / 援助 / 実践人類学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In cognitive science, there is the cognitive evaluation as a theory to understand the process that emotion arouses. It is that emotion is generated by subjective evaluation concerning the relationship between the self and the object. That is, there is a trend such as “object →cognitive evaluation →emotion,” and emotional expression means the outcome of evaluation and interpretation. The important point is how we understand such emotion in the context of development. If there is not such process of thinking, we can’t link emotion with the proper practice. In this research project, we study previous works on the emotional sociology and anthropology, and then exemplified the continuities between the people’s management of their emotion and their development practice.

Free Research Field

文化人類学