A Cultural Anthropological Study of Locality in Italy

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370973
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: National Museum of Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: UDAGAWA Taeko 国立民族学博物館, 超域フィールド科学研究部, 教授 (90211771)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ローカリティ / イタリア / グローバリゼーション / ローカルコミュニティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Today “the local” has been a very noteworthy issue in the globalization. But what is the local, locality? Answering this question is the aim of this study, looking up the theoretical documents and doing field research in Italian local communities. Results are; the local is not a priori ontological entity opponent of the global, but a reconstructed and reconstructing one with the global, the national, and so on. So contemporary various phenomena relevant to “the local” must be revisited critically with this view. And these days we must understand the local site as a place where the combination of multiple spatialities of organizations, praxis, and belonging at a distance would become possible. It means that our concept “place/space” with “time”is now being reconstructed drastically,too. I believe it’s an important clue to innovate the locality theory.

Free Research Field

文化人類学