Ethnographic research on alternative justice systems in Kenyan farming communities

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770292
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Ishida Shin-ichiro 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (10506306)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Matsuzono Makio 国立民族学博物館, 名誉教授 (00061408)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: オルタナティブ・ジャスティス / ケニア / 民族誌 / 国際研究者交流 / 国際情報交換 / 博物館教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aims at the ethnographic study of Kenyan farming communities from alternative justice perspectives. Intensive fieldwork on alternative justice systems was done in Igembe (by S. Ishida and M. Matsuzono), Tigania (by N. Gichere), and Imenti communities (by S. M. Mwithimbu and other Kenya researchers) of Meru County. Based on a joint research collaboration between Department of Social Anthropology at Tokyo Metropolitan University and the National Museums of Kenya, the two-year project is concluded with publication of a book from University of Nairobi Press, "The Indigenous Knowledge of the Amiirru of Kenya" (N. Gichere, S. M. Mwithimbu and S. Ishida eds), and other journal articles and book chapters. S. Ishida presented his paper at the 2015 annual meeting of American Anthropological Association at Denver, Colorado.

Free Research Field

社会人類学