A Basic Project to Establish Micro-Anthropology

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This three-year project was conducted under the leadership of Dr. Masakazu TANAKA of Kyoto University to establish the basis of Micro-Anthropology. We have tentatively specified the following three domains to explore as the sub-fields of Micro-Anthropology. They are : topics to take for Micro-Anthropology; relationships between scholars and those studied ; theoretical geneaology.We organized 21 seminars, where 34 papers were presented and discussed. In the first sub-field, body, emotion, speach/narrative were picked up. The second sub-field is concerned with anthropologists experiences in the fields and their implications to a wider theoretical perspective. Finally some analyze significant concepts such as individual, subject and agent in the context of the modern development of Western thoughts.The collection of the articles based on the above seminars will be published by a Kyoto-based publisher, SekaiShisousha, in 2002. Furthermore, the newly constructed database of the.anthropological literature regarding Micro-Anthropology was made open to the public on the internet. Its URL is as follows ; http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shakti/database/micro.html