Possibilities of Andean ethnographic photograghs

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24401046
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Nanzan University
• Principal Investigator: KATO Takahiro 南山大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (50185849)
• Research Collaborator: KAPSOLI Wilfredo ; MILLONES Luis ; MARCHENA Juan ; ORTIZ Alejandro ; SOLANO Juan ; VELASQUEZ Orlando ; MAYER Renata ; MAZZOTI Jose Antonio ; ROZAS Washington ; FUJII Tatsuhiko ; KAWABE Shinji ; UEHARA Natsuki
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: アンデス / 写真 / 映像人類学 / 民族画像 / 文化資源

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the course of building a database of "Andean ethnic photographs collection", we noticed that the visual materials contain the high potentiality to expand the horizon of the cultural anthropology. However, in the conventional anthropological studies the pictures have not been sufficiently estimated being considered just as an auxiliary instrument, even if it is a photograph collection of enormous value that can describe the details about the past and present of an ethnic group.Therefore, in the present study, paying attention also to the images that are released in other research institutions, we have considered the possibility of methods of cultural anthropology to approach from image as an example in the case of the Andean region, to get the thick ethnographic description that the language can not achieve in the socio-cultural
aspects.In this study, we have also discussed how to utilize ethnographic photographs as cultural resource, and tried to rehabilitate these visual materials.

Free Research Field

文化人類学