Dissertation Enhancement: Meiji Era Art Motifs and Contemporary Japanese Conceptions of Identity

9724689 Hicks该奖项支持日本千叶大学文化人类学系的David Hicks博士获得为期12个月的国家科学基金论文增强奖。希克博士的学生詹妮弗·卡伦斯女士将与人类学教授竹井秀夫博士合作，进行一个名为“明治时代艺术图案与当代日本人的身份观念”的研究项目。拟议的研究旨在通过确定与明治时代（1868- 1912）相关的自然或技术主题是否作为日本集体认同的基础，阐明艺术如何激发文化认同。虽然明治时代被认为是日本历史上的一个关键时期，但没有人试图研究明治艺术与当代日本人的集体自我意识，即“日本性”（Nihonrashisa）之间的联系。拟议的研究以当前的历史和人类学研究为基础，分析日本人如何创造和维持集体认同感，以及对这种认同感的不同解释如何潜在地破坏现有的态度并引发社会变革。＊＊＊

9724689 Hicks This award supports a 12 month National Science Foundation Dissertation Enhancement award for Dr. David Hicks at the Chiba University Department of Cultural Anthropology, Chiba, Japan. Dr. Hick's student, Ms. Jennifer Callans, will work with Dr. Hideo Takei, Professor of Anthropology, on a research project entitled, "Meiji Era Art Motifs and Contemporary Japanese Conceptions of Identity." The proposed research seeks to illuminate how art stimulates cultural identity by determining whether natural or technological motifs associated with the Meiji Era (1868- 1912) serve as a foundation for Japanese collective identity. Although the Meiji Era is considered a crucial period in Japanese history, there has been no attempt to examine the association between Meiji art and a contemporary Japanese sense of collective self, that is, "Japaneseness" (Nihonrashisa). The proposed research builds on current historical and anthropological studies to analyze how the Japanese people create and sustain a sense of collective identity and how diverse interpretations of the identity potentially undermine existing attitudes and induce social change. ***