Cultural Anthropological Research on Historic Media in the Caroline Islands.

这个研究团队由三位社会文化人类学家和一位考古学家组成，我们所说的历史媒体涵盖了各种现象，包括文字资料、口述历史、表演艺术等，其中承载着关于过去的信息。文字记录是密克罗尼西亚最近的发展，因此，传统意义上的历史是不为人所知的。为了编写密克罗尼西亚历史，研究上述历史媒体是很重要的。我们围绕这一任务组织了我们的项目，通过对各种历史媒体的分析，重建加罗林群岛人民的历史。收集基本数据是我们的首要任务。由于传统文化现在面临着现代化进程的强大压力，基础数据的收集本身就是一个紧迫的问题。我们很高兴地报告，该项目的每个成员都能够取得比预期更好的结果。然而，鉴于密克罗尼西亚丰富的文化和…更多的历史，该项目仍处于初级阶段。第二个目标，即重建历史记录，仍在进行中。以下是每个小组成员的工作摘要。小松和彦在普拉普环礁进行了田野调查，主要关注神话和民间故事、岛间交流系统和社会关系。Karakita，Yasuyuki在沃莱环礁做田野工作。他研究了口头传统、跨兄弟姐妹关系和血统群体结构。Intoh，Michiko和Rubinstein，D.H.在费斯岛进行了他们的田野工作。鲁宾斯坦通过当时的歌曲记录了岛上居民的二战经历，并收集了家谱，以重建费伊人的人口学历史。因托做了考古发掘，发现了丰富的文化遗迹。初步结果表明，Fais已经存在了1900年。我们计划与Kagosima大学南太平洋研究中心合作发表一份正式报告

This research team consists of three social and cultural anthropologist and an archaeologisit.What we means by historic media covers various phenomena, including written material, oral history, the performing arts and etc., which carries informtion about the past. Written records are recent development in Micronesia, and, therefore, history in a conventional sense ishardly hnown. It is important to study the historic media identified above in inorder to write Micronesian histories.We organized our project around this task to reconstruct the history of people in the Caroline Islands though the analyses of the various historic media. The Collection of basic data was our first priority. Because traditional culture is now under strong pressure from the process of modernization, the collection of basic data is itself an urgent issue. We are happy to report that each member of the project was able to achieve better results than expected.However, given the richness of Micronesian culture and … More history, the project is still in its initial stages. The second target,i.e., the reconstruction of the historical record, is still in progress.the following provides summaries of each team member's work. Komatsu, Kazuhiko conducted his fieldwork on Pulap atoll focusing myth and folktales, the inter-island exchange system, and social relationships. Karakita, Yasuyuki did his fieldwork on Woleai atoll. He studied oral tradition, cross-sibling relationships, and descent group structure. Intoh, Michiko and Rubinstein, D. H. conducted their fieldwork on Fais island. Rubinstein recorded the islanders' experience of World War II though songs comosed at the time, and collected genealogies in order to reconstruct a demographic history of Fais. Intoh did archaeological excavation, and found a rich cultural satratification. Preliminary results indicate that Fais hasbeen ingabited past 1900 years.We plans to publish a formal report in cooporation with the Kagosima University Research Center For the South Pacific Less