Anthro-Zoolography between Animals and Zoologists

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560137
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology/History of science and technology
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Ikeda Mitsuho 大阪大学, COデザインセンター, 教授 (40211718)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SATO Yoshikazu 酪農学園大学, 農食環境学群環境共生学類, 教授 (60366622)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 対称性人類学 / 知の遠近法 / 人間＝動物関係 / 動物地理 / 科学人類学 / 科学社会学 / 動物行動観察 / 動物文化学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

How do the professional zoologists communicate with animals as their research objects in their laboratories and outdoor fields? If you have a question like this, you are in front of the door that is inspiring and introducing you our new anthropological field, we neologize as "anthro-zoolography." On this study, we can classify various ontological actors into three categories; (a) Animals, (b) Zoologists, and (c) Researchers of cultural anthropology. In short, even zoologists objectify animals as research objects, at the same time they also subject-ify (to turn animals into subjects as actors) for understanding natural phenomenon via anthropomorphism theriophily and so on. Through these cognitive process, we can find out research diversities depending on historical, cultural, and social differences. Our research outcomes are showed as research papers and our own web pages.

Free Research Field

文化人類学